Title: The Forgotten Home Child
Author: Genevieve Graham
Genre: Historical Fiction
Summary: Inspired by true events, The Forgotten Home Child is a moving and heartbreaking novel about place, belonging, and family—the one we make for ourselves and its enduring power to draw us home. It about a young girl caught in a scheme to rid England’s streets of destitute children, and the lengths she will go to find her way home. It is based on a true story of the British Home Children.
Rating:
Very good and easy to read.
Why
I Like It: A
friend of mine found out that her Grandmother was a Home Child while
she was researching her family history and recommend this book to me.
Her Grandmother had lived her life the same as the character in the
book. It is a part of Canadian and English history I never
knew.
Reviewer:
Nancy Bucher
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