A Sunday Times bestseller

Two women, bound by a child, and a secret that will change everything . . .

London, 1754. Six years after leaving her illegitimate newborn at the Foundling Hospital, Bess Bright returns to reclaim the daughter she has never known. Dreading the worst, that she has died in care, she is astonished to discover someone pretending to be Bess has already claimed her. Her life is turned upside down as she tries to find out who has taken her little girl--and why.

Less than a mile from Bess's poor lodgings, in a quiet Georgian townhouse, lives Alexandra, a reclusive young widow. When her close friend--an ambitious doctor at the orphanage--persuades her to hire a nursemaid to help care for her daughter, she is hesitant to welcome someone new into her home. But her past is threatening to catch up with her and tear her carefully constructed world apart.

From the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Familiars comes this captivating story of mothers and daughters, class and power, and love against the greatest of odds.

"A gripping tale of motherhood, loss, and redemption. Hall's distinctive characters and scrupulous historical detail drop us into a rich, Dickensian world full of desperation and lies, and shows us just how far a mother will go to hold onto her child." --Serena Burdick, International bestselling author of The Girls with No Names

"The new Hilary Mantel "--Cosmopolitan

Author: Stacey Halls
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Harlequin Sales Corp
Published: 04/07/2020
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.7lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.90w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780778309321
Original Edition


Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 02/15/2020
Booklist 03/01/2020 pg. 32
Library Journal 04/01/2020 pg. 84

About the Author
Halls, Stacey: - Stacey Halls was born in 1989 and grew up in Lancashire, England. She studied journalism at the University of Central Lancashire and has worked as a journalist since the age of 21, writing for publications including The Independent, Fabulous magazine, Stylist and Psychologies. She lives in London with her husband. The Familiars is her first novel.