Access a growing selection of included Audible Originals, audiobooks and podcasts. From the bestselling author of The Familiars comes this captivating story of mothers and daughters, class and power, and love against the greatest of odds. The Foundling By: Stacey Halls, Patrick Knowles, Lucy Rose Cartwright Narrated by: Hattie Morahan, Laura Aikman Length: 9 hrs and 19 mins 4.4 (29 ratings) Try for 0.00 Pick 1 title (2 titles for Prime members) from our collection of bestsellers and new releases. But her past is threatening to catch up with her and tear her carefully constructed world apart. When her close friend - an ambitious young doctor at the Foundling Hospital - persuades her to hire a nursemaid for her daughter, she is hesitant to welcome someone new into her home and her life. Less than a mile from Bess's lodgings in the city, in a quiet, gloomy townhouse on the edge of London, a young widow has not left the house in a decade. For theres no such thing as the perfect family. Her life is turned upside down as she tries to find out who has taken her little girl - and why. From the bestselling author of The Familiars and The Foundling comes Stacey Halls most compelling and ambitious novel to date A gripping feminist mystery where a nanny must travel to a grand house filled with secrets.

Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London's Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the child she has never known.ĭreading the worst, that Clara has died in care, she is astonished when she is told she has already claimed her. Two women, bound by a child, and a secret that will change everything.

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