TY - BOOK AU - Gill, Elizabeth, TI - The lost child T2 - Deerness SN - 9781787474659 PY - 2021/// CY - London : PB - Quercus, KW - Adopted children KW - Fiction KW - Young men KW - Secrecy KW - Villages KW - Poverty KW - Man-woman relationships KW - Durham (England) KW - History KW - 19th century KW - Social life and customs KW - Historical fiction KW - lcgft KW - Domestic fiction N2 - "After a childhood of poverty, can they change their fates? After a traumatic incident, a woman gives birth to a child and is persuaded by her husband to give him up to a local couple. On the same dark and stormy night, a local pit owner turns his wife out on to the bleak moors, telling her son she is evil. The woman is never seen again. Years later, now adults, these two men are about to change the lives of two young women. But will they be able to escape the secrets of their past?"--Provided by publisher ER -