![]() A vivid, challenging and at times harrowing story from the author of the Surya Trilogy, Coram Boy is Jamila Gavin at her very best. A way must be found to rescue them, but a great friend must die before the family can be reunited. When Mish sees Aaron and Alexander together, and realises the family link, he takes Aaron and Toby to Otis, who rejects them. Toby is a plaything at the house of rich Mr Gaddarn, who is, in fact, Otis. But Mish manages to save Melissa's baby, Aaron, and he grows up with Toby, the son of an African slave, inseparable friends. Alexander, not knowing Melissa's condition, has fled his home for a career in music. 2000 Whitbread Childrens Book of the YearPublished to acclaim in the United Kingdom, this stunning historical novel delves into a hidden side of eighteenth-century England: the world of infanticide and child slavery. When Melissa, beloved of Alexander Ashbrook and daughter of his governess becomes pregnant by him, her mother arranges for the Otis to take the child, telling Melissa it was stillborn. ![]() Instead, he murders them and buries them by the roadside, to the helpless horror of his mentally ill son, Mish. ![]() The Coram man takes babies and money from. ![]() Otis takes babies and money off desperate mothers, promising to deliver them to the Coram Foundling Hospital in London. The Whitbread 2000 Book of the Year is a haunting and captivating work of historical fiction for children. A tale of tradition, corruption, strife and growing-up from award-winning author Jamila Gavin. ![]()
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