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02380aam a2200289 a 4500 001 462141A474A711EA8EBE956E97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200402010032 008 191218s2020 enk 000 1 eng d 020 $a 1838881565 020 $a 9781838881566 (softcover) 040 $d SILO 100 1 $a Bennett, Ann, $e author. 245 14 $a The orphan house / $c Ann Bennett 260 $a London : $b Bookouture, $c 2020. 300 $a 327 pages ; $c 21 cm. 500 $a The past will always call you home --from the cover. 520 $a As she looks at the baby wriggling in her father?s arms, a bolt of recognition goes through her and she takes a step back. And it?s in that moment that she begins to protect her father?s secrets. 1934, Weirfield-on-Thames. Connie Burroughs loves living in the orphanage that her father runs. Exploring its nooks and crannies with her sister, hearing the pounding of a hundred pairs of feet on the wooden stairs, having a father who is doing so much good. But everything changes the day she sees him carrying a newborn baby that he says he found near the broken front gate. A baby she recognises? Present day. Arriving at her father?s beloved cottage beside the river, Sarah Jennings is hoping for peace and quiet, to escape her difficult divorce. But when she finds her father unwell and hunched over boxes of files on the orphanage where he was abandoned as a child, she decides to investigate it herself. The only person left alive who lived at Cedar Hall is Connie Burroughs, but Connie sits quietly in her nursing home for a reason. The sewing box under Connie?s bed hides secrets that will change Sarah?s life forever, uncovering a connection between them that has darker consequences than she could ever imagine. A heartbreaking but ultimately uplifting tale inspired by the lives of the children who lived at the author?s great-grandfather?s orphanage. Fans of Before We Were Yours, The Orphan?s Tale and The Orphan Train will be hooked. -- $c from the back cover. 650 0 $a Secrets $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Orphans $v Fiction. 655 7 $a Historical fiction. 941 $a 4 952 $l GOPG641 $d 20240409041249.0 952 $l KSPG296 $d 20200613010026.0 952 $l FDPC194 $d 20200610010618.0 952 $l GBPF771 $d 20200402010330.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=462141A474A711EA8EBE956E97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search