Paperback: 438 pages
Genre: Fiction, Historical Fiction and Romance
Publisher: Simon and Schuster 2019
Source: Tywyn Public Library
First Sentence: 'This is the one'
Review Quote: 'Simply stunning . . . I savoured every moment of this moving story of love, loss and, ultimately, forgiveness’ DINAH JEFFERIES
My Opinion: I have now read, including this one, six novels by Rachel Hore and her writing has grown on me. Maybe I have mellowed with age, because I seem to enjoy her novels more as I get older. It was thirteen years ago when I first read one.
As with many
of her novels, ‘The Love Child’ is dual narrative. It is an absorbing and
emotional read about a young girl falling pregnant during WWI and being forced
to give up her new-born child for adoption. Some twenty years later the secrets of the
past cause mixed emotions as the mother and child’s stories become more
entwined.
A
recommended read that will give you a realistic insight into what life was like
for women in those times. How far we have thankfully come since then!
My reviews of other novels by Rachel Hore: The Memory Garden A Week in Paris
Précis Courtesy of Goodreads:
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.
Putting hopes of marriage and children behind her, Alice embarks upon a pioneering medical career, striving to make her way in a male-dominated world. Meanwhile, Irene struggles to define her own life, eventually leaving her Suffolk home to find work in London.
As two extraordinary stories intertwine across two decades, will secrets long-buried at last come to light?
Author Profile:
Rachel Hore is the author of eleven bestselling novels, the most recent of which is A Beautiful Spy. Her twelfth, One Moonlit Night, will be published in the UK in May 2022.
Full time writing only came after a career editing fiction at HarperCollins in London. She lives in Norfolk with her husband and they have three grown up sons.
A full and interesting Profile can be found on the Amazon Author Page and even more on her Official Website
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