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’ 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. Her life is turned upside down as she tries to find out who has taken her little girl – and why. 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. Six years after leaving her illegitimate daughter Clara at London’s Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the child she has never known. In May, it’s my choice of book and I’ve chosen ‘The Foundling’ by Stacey Halls. As well as discussing the current month’s book, it has been fascinating for me to meet new people and to find out what life has been like in Hawaii during the pandemic. I’ve certainly read books that I’d never have picked up before, and thoroughly enjoyed them. The meetings are held once a month on video conferencing software, Jitsi. The Foundling Hospital Museum, 40, Brunswick Square, LondonĪn unusual thing that happened to me during the pandemic is that although I live in the UK, I joined a book club in Hawaii.
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