The throwaway children / Diney Costeloe.

By:

Costeloe, Diney [author.]

Material type: Text

TextDescription: 489 pages ; 23 cmISBN:

9781784970024 (paperback)
1784970026 (paperback)

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Genre/Form:

Historical fiction.

DDC classification:

823.92 22

Summary: Gritty, heartrending and unputdownable - the story of two sisters sent first to an English, then an Australian orphanage in the aftermath of World War 2. Rita and Rosie Stevens are only nine and five years old when their widowed mother marries a violent bully called Jimmy Randall and has a baby boy by him. Under pressure from her new husband, she is persuaded to send the girls to an orphanage - not knowing that the papers she has signed will entitle them to do what they like with the children. And it is not long before the powers that be decide to send a consignment of orphans to their sister institution in Australia. Among them - without their family's consent or knowledge - are Rita and Rosie, the throwaway children.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Fiction	Pop-Up Library Fiction	Fiction	COST (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		a00691206

Gritty, heartrending and unputdownable - the story of two sisters sent first to an English, then an Australian orphanage in the aftermath of World War 2. Rita and Rosie Stevens are only nine and five years old when their widowed mother marries a violent bully called Jimmy Randall and has a baby boy by him. Under pressure from her new husband, she is persuaded to send the girls to an orphanage - not knowing that the papers she has signed will entitle them to do what they like with the children. And it is not long before the powers that be decide to send a consignment of orphans to their sister institution in Australia. Among them - without their family's consent or knowledge - are Rita and Rosie, the throwaway children.

Patron comment on 14/10/2015

Share the lives of Rita and Rose, aged 9 and 5 years old, as they are forcefully sent to a type of orphanage. The EVERcare orphanage in England. Feel with them as they face the trials of very inhumane treatment from unfeeling staff. Eventually being sent to a sister EVERcare orphanage in Australia without the mother or grandmother being informed where the same type of life and treatment were handed out. EVERcare, which very obviously meant for ever. This is a believable story of what was happening in England during war and post war years. A story that tugs at your heartstrings. Have lots of tissues handy!

Heather Y

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