10% off all books and free delivery over £40
Buy from our bookstore and 25% of the cover price will be given to a school of your choice to buy more books. *15% of eBooks.

A Mother's Secret

View All Editions

£8.99 £8.09

In Stock. Same day dispatch on orders before 3pm.

Add To Wishlist
Write A Review

About

A Mother's Secret Synopsis

When seventeen-year-old Belinda Phillips falls in love with a handsome Anglo-Indian officer, she knows that he is a man she can never hope to marry. When he is reported missing, believed killed in action, Belinda discovers that she is pregnant. Facing disgrace and ruin, she has no option other than to accept an arranged marriage with a middle-aged widower, knowing she must keep the secret of her child's birth for ever.

Reluctantly she sends her beloved daughter to a foster mother in Cripplegate, little realising she has entrusted Cassy's care to Biddy Henchard, a woman who runs a notorious baby farm in an area full of poverty and disease. Despite her terrible upbringing, Cassy survives the old woman's cruel neglect. All the while she dreams of a mother she has never known, hoping she will come and save her from her dreadful fate. But when Biddy dies suddenly, ten-year-old Cassy finds herself destitute and with little hope of ever finding the mother she so longs for...

About This Edition

ISBN: 9780099538837
Publication date: 3rd March 2011
Author: Dilly Court
Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd an imprint of Cornerstone
Format: Paperback
Pagination: 512 pages
Primary Genre Sagas
Other Genres:

Author

Collections Featuring This Book

You Might Also Like...

A Maiden's Voyage

Rosie Goodwin

Paperback

In Stock

£7.19 £7.99

Snow Bride

Dilly Court

Paperback

In Stock

£8.09 £8.99

A Mother's War

Mollie Walton

Paperback

In Stock

£8.09 £8.99

The Bomb Girls

Daisy Styles

Paperback

In Stock

£8.99 £9.99

Florence Grace

Tracy Rees

Paperback

In Stock

£8.99 £9.99

Hope

Lesley Pearse

Paperback

In Stock

£8.99 £9.99