Oranges and Sunshine by Margaret Humphreys

Oranges and Sunshine by Margaret Humphreys

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Book Type: SECONDHAND
ISBN: 9780552163354
Author: Margaret Humphreys
Edition: 1st Edition
Publisher: Corgi Books
Place: London
Year: 2011
Format: Paperback
Pages: 400 pages
Period: 20th Century

Book Description

Secondhand. Good condition. Wear to book corners and edges.

Previously title: Empty Cradles

In 1986 Margaret Humphreys, a Nottingham social worker, investigated a woman’s claim that, aged four, she had been put on a boat to Australia by the British government. At first incredulous, Margaret discovered that this was just the tip of an enormous iceberg. Up to 150,000 children, some as young as three years old, had been deported from children’s homes in Britain and shipped off to a ‘new life’ in distant parts of the Empire, right up until as recently as 1970.

Many were told that their parents were dead, and parents often believed that their children had been adopted in Britain. In fact, for many children it was to be a life of horrendous physical and sexual abuse far away from everything they knew. Margaret reveals how she unravelled this shocking secret and how it became her mission to reunite these innocent and unwilling exiles with their families in Britain before it was too late. (publisher blurb)

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