by Stacey Halls · Bonnier Books · tapa dura · ISBN 9781838770068
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«The Foundling» is the historical novel by Stacey Halls, published by Bonnier Books in hardback (384 pages, in English).
In 1754, Bess Bright returns to the Foundling Hospital to reclaim her daughter Clara, left there at birth, and discovers that someone has already claimed her. A wealthy widow, a recluse in her own home, hires a nursemaid on a doctor's advice. Their paths cross in a story of motherhood, secrets and social divides in Georgian London.
It is Stacey Halls's second novel, after The Familiars, and was published in 2020.
For readers of historical fiction set in the eighteenth century and of novels with mystery and motherhood.
Stacey Nicole Halls is an English author of gothic historical fiction. Her debut novel The Familiars (2019) became a Sunday Times bestseller and earned a Betty Trask Award. This was followed by further bestsellers The Foundling (2020), Mrs England (2021) and The Household (2024). Halls won the 2022 Women's Prize x Good Housekeeping Futures Award.
