{"product_id":"9780349013183","title":"The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames : A Foundling's Story","description":"\u003cp\u003eAuthor(s): Cowan, Justine, \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Hardback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 04\/02\/2021,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 320 pages, 2 plate sections,\u003cbr\u003e Series: N\/A, \u003cbr\u003eImprint: Virago Press Ltd,\u003cbr\u003e Published By: Little, Brown Book Group,\u003cbr\u003e Book Classification: Biography: historical political \u0026amp; military, European history, British \u0026amp; Irish history,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780349013183\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescription:\u003cbr\u003eA gripping memoir and revelatory investigation into the history of the Foundling Hospital and one girl who grew up in its care - the author's own mother.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGrowing up in a wealthy enclave outside San Francisco, Justine Cowan's life seems idyllic.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut her mother's unpredictable temper drives Justine from home the moment she is old enough to escape. It is only after her mother dies that she finds herself pulling at the threads of a story half-told - her mother's upbringing in London's Foundling Hospital. Haunted by this secret history, Justine travels across the sea and deep into the past to discover the girl her mother once was.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHere, with the vividness of a true storyteller, she pieces together her mother's childhood alongside the history of the Foundling Hospital: from its idealistic beginnings in the eighteenth century, how it influenced some of England's greatest creative minds - from Handel to Dickens, its shocking approach to childcare and how it survived the Blitz only to close after the Second World War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis was the environment that shaped a young girl then known as Dorothy Soames, who was left behind by a mother forced by stigma and shame to give up her child; who withstood years of physical and emotional abuse, dreaming ofescape as German bombers circled the skies, unaware all along that her own mother was fighting to get her back.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Winstones","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":38017165492377,"sku":"9780349013183","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0423\/0240\/6809\/products\/9780349013183.jpg?v=1612631495","url":"https:\/\/winstonebooks.pro\/products\/9780349013183","provider":"Winstone's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}