SECRET LIFE OF DOROTHY SOAMES (PB)

As a young girl, Dorothy Soames dreamed of escape as German bombers circled the skies, unaware all along that her own mother was fighting to get her back. In this book Justine Cowan pieces together her mother's childhood alongside the history of London’s Foundling Hospital: from its idealistic beginnings in the eighteenth century, to its shocking approach to childcare, and how it survived the Blitz only to close after the Second World War.