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The Throwaway Children

By: Diney Costeloe
Narrated by: Anne Dover
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Rita and Rosie Stevens are only nine and five years old when their widowed mother marries a violent bully called Jimmy Randall and has a baby boy by him. Under pressure from her new husband, she is persuaded to send the girls to an orphanage, not knowing that the papers she has signed will entitle them to do what they like with the children. And it is not long before the powers that be decide to send a consignment of orphans to their sister institution in Australia. Among them - without their family's consent or knowledge - are Rita and Rosie, the throwaway children.

©2016 Diney Costeloe (P)2016 Dreamscape Media, LLC Genre Fiction Historical Fiction
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disliked the era the cruel people of the times and also the srengh to get through

a brilliant ending

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This book really had me. The children and loving gran. The description of what the children encountered so visually vivid that I felt their pain.

Intense and Infallible

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loved this story, l felt like l was literally living it.
parts so sad and sadly relevant to the period of 40s and 50s.
recommend this fabulous book

the cruel twists that unfortunately are probably true to life

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