The Love Child
- Authors: Rachel Hore
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- Type: Novel
- Genres: General Fiction
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- Rating: 4.4 based on 4,085 reviews
- Release Date: September 5, 2019
- Print length: 400 pages (Hardcover)
About the book
The UNMISSABLE novel from the million-copy Sunday Times bestseller. Secrets from the past, unravelling in the present... Uncovering secrets that span generations, Rachel delivers intriguing, involving and emotive narrative reading group fiction like few other writers can.
A young mother's sacrifice. A child's desperate search for the truth...
London, 1917
When nineteen-year-old Alice Copeman becomes pregnant, she is forced by her father and stepmother to give up the baby. She simply cannot be allowed to bring shame upon her family. But all Alice can think about is the small, kitten-like child she gave away, and she mourns the father, a young soldier, so beloved, who will never have the chance to know his daughter.
Edith and Philip Burns, a childless couple, yearn for a child of their own. When they secretly adopt a baby girl, Irene, their life together must surely be complete. Irene grows up knowing that she is different from other children, but no one will tell her the full truth.
As two extraordinary stories intertwine across two decades, will secrets long-buried at last come to light?
Brilliantly evoking the changing attitudes of the time, The Love Child is a novel about love, family, separation, despair and hope, full of tenderness and deep feeling.
Praise for The Love Child
A wonderfully moving tale of love and loss, hope and eventual reconciliation
A gorgeous and deeply absorbing story
Simply stunning... I savoured every moment of this moving story of love, loss and, ultimately, forgiveness
An emotive and thought-provoking read
I found her writing warm, compassionate in this story about one girl's search for her true identity amidst the secrets and dynamics of her adopted family. It had a realism about the poignancy of illegitimacy in this pre-war setting
A hugely compelling, poignant and moving read. Rachel has great skill as a storyteller and readers are sure to be engrossed and swept away by her clever double-stranded tale
Hore tackles difficult subjects with a clever, light touch and a sunny positivity. Her women are brave and good and you desperately want them to win
A poignant story, rich in period detail
A story that stirs the deepest emotions
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