For the avid reader, discerning collector and real Stacey Halls ("The Familiars") - fan,
a like new, signed, 1st UK edition / 1st printing hardcover copy of
Stacey Halls
The Foundling
Manilla Press, London / UK, 2020
"Six years after leaving
her illegitimate daughter Clara at London's Foundling Hospital, Bess
Bright returns to reclaim the child she has never known. Dreading the
worst - that Clara has died in care - the last thing she expects to hear
is that her daughter has already been reclaimed - by her. Her life is
turned upside down as she tries to find out who has taken her little
girl - and why. Less than a mile from Bess' 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. 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. But her past is threatening to catch up with her and tear her
carefully constructed world apart.
From the bestselling author of
The Familiars, and set against the vibrant backdrop of Georgian London,
The Foundling explores families, secrets, class, equality, power and
the meaning of motherhood." (goodreads.com; 4,03* / 5*****)
"Stacey Halls grew up in
Rossendale, Lancashire, as the daughter of market traders. She has
always been fascinated by the Pendle witches. She studied journalism at
the University of Central Lancashire and moved to London aged 21. She
was media editor at The Bookseller and books editor at Stylist.co.uk,
and has also written for Psychologies, the Independent and Fabulous
magazine, where she now works as Deputy Chief Sub Editor. The Familiars was her first novel." (goodreads.com)