TY - BOOK AU - Gunnis,Emily TI - The girl in the letter SN - 9781472255099 AV - PS U1 - 823.92 23 PY - 2019/// CY - London PB - Headline Review KW - Unmarried mothers KW - Fiction KW - Adoption KW - Journalists KW - Great Britain KW - Historical fiction KW - lcgft KW - Detective and mystery fiction N1 - Some copies include excerpt from The Lost Child N2 - 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? ER -