The Hidden Child
Book description
An international bestseller!
“The Hidden Child is a heart-wrenching depiction of a golden couple in the 1920s…. Shocking, emotive, and compelling, but ultimately a story of hope. I loved it.” -- Deborah Carr, USA Today bestselling author
Londoners Eleanor and Edward Hamilton have it all. But the 1929 financial crash…
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Why read it?
1 author picked The Hidden Child as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Sometimes I look around and think the world has not improved much, but then a book like this reminds me of how far we have come. This is a heart-breaking tale about a child with epilepsy in a time when the fashion for eugenics meant that children with epilepsy were wrenched away from their families, shut up in institutions, injected with ghastly substances which turned them into zombies, and forcibly sterilised so they could not pass on this 'defect'. As a mum and a grandmother, I was twisted and torn apart as the mother in this novel (who has few…