The story is awash with historical scenery, familiar detail such as roasted chestnuts and ordure running in the streets, thief takers and chop houses abound. There are twists in the road for Bess and her baby Clara.Īlong the way we meet Ambrosia the fun loving woman who enjoys unexpected freedoms of the time, her withdrawn and damaged younger sister, Alexandra and the Rag seller, mulatto Kezia a good friend to Bess. Its very hard to whet your appetite without spoilers but suffice to say that not everything proceeds along the well trodden path we have come to expect and there are some surprises in store for the reader. A dark and hopeless picture is painted as Bess leaves the Foundling Hospital empty handed. The father is now dead and there is little hope that Bess will be able to save the necessary fee for regaining her daughter. Bess is no fool and whilst she has given up her baby to the Foundling Hospital she has every intention of reclaiming her when she feels able to support her, a single mother for our times. Stacey Halls brings the Georgian heroine into the 21st century with her energy and self sufficiency. But this tale does have some surprises in store. This is a well trodden path for fiction lovers the tale of a good hearted girl whose life is changed for ever by the selfish actions of an amoral richer, older man of means. This is Georgian London and we are in a busy and brutal city where the poor live in stinking slums, literally having to work from dawn until dusk to feed themselves and their families.īess lives with her father and her ne’er do well brother Ned.
The Foundling begins with a familiar tale of a young woman living in poverty forced to give up her illegitimate child. BLOG TOUR February 29 – Publication Date February 6 2020
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