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The Girl in the letter

A heartbreaking letter. A girl locked away. A mystery to be solved. 1956. When Ivy Jenkins falls pregnant she is sent in disgrace to St Margaret's, a dark, brooding house for unmarried mothers. Her baby is adopted against her will. Ivy will never leave. Present day. Samantha Harper is a journalist desperate for a break. When she stumbles on a letter from the past, the contents shock and move her. The letter is from a young mother, begging to be rescued from St Margaret's. Before it is too late. Sam is pulled into the tragic story and discovers a spate of unexplained deaths surrounding the woman and her child. With St Margaret's set for demolition, Sam has only hours to piece together a sixty-year-old mystery before the truth, which lies disturbingly close to home, is lost for ever... Read her letter. Remember her story...

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32320004637967 F
Fiction-Adult   Rutherford Library . . Available .  
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ISBN 9781472255105 (pbk.)
1472255100
Classification Number F
Author Gunnis, Emily
Title The Girl in the letter [BK]
A heartbreaking letter. A girl locked away. A mystery to be solved. 1956. When Ivy Jenkins falls pregnant she is sent in disgrace to St Margaret's, a dark, brooding house for unmarried mothers. Her baby is adopted against her will. Ivy will never leave. Present day. Samantha Harper is a journalist desperate for a break. When she stumbles on a letter from the past, the contents shock and move her. The letter is from a young mother, begging to be rescued from St Margaret's. Before it is too late. Sam is pulled into the tragic story and discovers a spate of unexplained deaths surrounding the woman and her child. With St Margaret's set for demolition, Sam has only hours to piece together a sixty-year-old mystery before the truth, which lies disturbingly close to home, is lost for ever... Read her letter. Remember her story...
Subject Women -- Social conditions -- 20th century -- Fiction
Institutional care -- England -- Fiction
Unmarried mothers -- England -- Fiction
Nineteen fifties -- Fiction
Unmarried mothers -- Fiction
Letters -- Fiction
Unmarried mothers -- Institutional care -- Fiction
Unmarried mothers -- Family relationships -- Fiction
Adoption -- Corrupt practices -- Fiction
Women journalists -- Fiction
Family secrets -- Fiction
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