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    <title>girl in the letter</title>
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    <namePart>Gunnis, Emily</namePart>
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  <genre authority="lcgft.">Historical fiction.</genre>
  <genre authority="lcgft.">Detective and mystery fiction.</genre>
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    <dateIssued encoding="marc">2019</dateIssued>
    <copyrightDate encoding="marc">2018</copyrightDate>
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    <extent>375 pages ; 20 cm.</extent>
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  <abstract>In the winter of 1956 pregnant young Ivy is sent in disgrace to St Margaret's, a home for unmarried mothers in the south of England, to have her child. Her baby daughter is adopted. Ivy will never leave. Sixty years later, journalist Samantha stumbles upon a series of letters from Ivy to her lover, pleading with him to rescue her from St Margaret's before it is too late.  keen that the truth should never be told?</abstract>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Emily Gunnis.</note>
  <note>Some copies include excerpt from The Lost Child.</note>
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    <topic>Unmarried mothers</topic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Adoption</topic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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  <subject authority="lcsh">
    <topic>Journalists</topic>
    <geographic>Great Britain</geographic>
    <topic>Fiction</topic>
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  <classification authority="ddc" edition="23">823.92</classification>
  <identifier type="isbn">9781472255099</identifier>
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