Name: Coram Boy by Gavin, Jamila
SKU: P805846419790
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Gavin, Jamila

Interest age: from c 11 years

Published on 1 January 2015 by HarperCollins Publishers (Farshore) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 368 pages
198 x 135 x 24 | 262g

The Whitbread 2000 Book of the Year is a haunting and captivating work of historical fiction for children.

The Coram man takes babies and money from desperate mothers, promising to deliver them safely to a Foundling Hospital in London. Instead, he murders them and buries them by the roadside, to the helpless horror of his mentally ill son, Mish.

Mish saves one, Aaron, who grows up happily unaware of his history, proving himself a promising musician. As Aaron’s new life takes him closer to his real family, the watchful Mish makes a terrible mistake, delivering Aaron and his best friend Toby back into the hands of the Coram man.

It tells the story of a dark time in English history. Fans of The Boy in the Strip

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