Lily: A Tale of Revenge from the Sunday Times bestselling author

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Abandoned by her mother in a London park in 1850, newborn Lily is saved by young policeman Sam Trench, who carries her to the city’s Foundling Hospital (built in real life by 18th-century philanthropist Thomas Coram). We’re told right at the beginning that Lily is a murderer and as the book progresses we can guess the victim.

From that moment, Nurse Maude singles her out for special punishment, and this goes on, in more and more perverted ways, until Lily leaves the hospital to go and work at Belle Prettywood’s Wig Emporium, where the sewing skills she had been taught by Nellie make her one of Belle’s most valued employees.You can probably tell as I’ve ranted on so long that I loved the plot, engrossing and so damn emotionally draining. Our team is made up of book lovers who are dedicated to sourcing and providing the best books for kids. It moved in strange patterns, like a wispy black scarf threatening to touch their faces, then suddenly disappearing to reveal the way ahead.

Tremain has taken pains to construct a tough, metropolitan character in Lily, with all sorts of possibilities open to her.Does Tremain still consider writing as a recovery process, or is it rebellion, or something else entirely?

When Sam came to see her to say he needed to talk to her, she assumed that it was about the murder, and she confessed it all to him before he could ask any questions. L'écriture évocatrice nous transporte en un rien de temps dans les rues de Londres à l'époque victorienne où se côtoient violence et misère, mais aussi dans les belles campagnes anglaises, seul refuge pour notre héroïne dickensienne, seul rempart contre un destin funeste auquel elle tente d'échapper.To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. In particular, the murder and Lily's obsession with being found out didn't feel high stakes enough to hold the plot together. Lily’s fostered years at Rookery Farm were happy, so it’s not hard to imagine her confusion and sorrow at being parted from kind Nelly. It makes me quite emotional to talk about him; he’s an incredibly courteous, sensitive man: an angel, really,” she says. Underlying Lily’s story, however, but never spelled out, is Tremain’s own anger that historical ills, especially the mistreatment of children in institutions, still exist.