The Crimson Rooms by Katharine McMahon

Author:Katharine McMahon
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Murder, England, Historical, Birthparents - Identification, Murder - Investigation, Women lawyers, Legal, General, Women lawyers - England, Investigation, Mystery fiction, Birthparents, Identification, Fiction
ISBN: 9780399156229
Publisher: Penguin
Published: 2010-02-18T00:55:47+00:00

Date of sailing, September 22, 1924.

150 children. Aged 8 and above.

Placements, various, domestic, agricultural

Fee PS13.00 per child.

Submissions by August 11, 1924.

Agency Barnardo's, in association with

the Church of England Advisory Council on Empire Settlement.

I looked from the notice to Leah and her children and remembered Carrie Morrison's warning and, in the boat last night, Meredith's scathing judgment of the government's emigration policy. Was this to be the fate of these children? What if Leah could not resist the bottle and her drunken husband was never found?

The filing cabinet was unlocked, and when I peered inside, I found that the partitions were neatly labeled: ACCOUNTS, MEDICAL, BOARD MEETINGS, CHILDREN ADMITTED 1920, 1921. And in the third drawer I found what I was looking for--MIGRATION--and in a folder:

Canadian Outfits for Girls

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