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The Girl in the Letter

The Girl in the Letter

Author(s): Emily Gunnis

Location(s): Sussex

Genre(s): Suspense, Fiction

Era(s): 1950s and modern

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A heartbreaking letter. A girl locked away. A mystery to be solved.

1956. When Ivy Jenkins falls pregnant she is sent in disgrace to St Margaret’s, a dark, brooding house for unmarried mothers. Her baby is adopted against her will. Ivy will never leave.

Present day. Samantha Harper is a journalist desperate for a break. When she stumbles on a letter from the past, the contents shock and move her. The letter is from a young mother, begging to be rescued from St Margaret’s. Before it is too late.

Sam is pulled into the tragic story and discovers a spate of unexplained deaths surrounding the woman and her child. With St Margaret’s set for demolition, Sam has only hours to piece together a sixty-year-old mystery before the truth, which lies disturbingly close to home, is lost for ever…

Read her letter. Remember her story…

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Author: tripfiction

2.75* Many readers will be familiar with the mother and baby homes that were run by the Catholic Church in Ireland (Philomena, the film, certainly highlighted the dreadful circumstances) and the plight of the...

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