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A Mother’s Secret
Belinda Phillips is left pregnant when the Anglo-Indian officer she loves disappears. Under pressure to make a respectable marriage, she gives birth in secrecy, and her daughter Cassy is placed in a baby farm in Cripplegate rather than acknowledged within Belinda’s new life.
As Cassy grows up amid neglect and danger, the concealed circumstances of her birth continue to bind mother and child. Their separate struggles expose the cost of reputation, arranged marriage and the institutions that profited from unwanted children in Victorian London.
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