The Home Child by Liz Berry
PBS RECOMMENDATION SPRING 2023
Emily Cotterill the well-known English letter cutter

the well-known English letter cutter

Wide-ranging and ambitious

Stephanie Norgate’s first collection Hidden River (2008) was shortlisted for both the Forward Prize for Best First Collection and the Jerwood Aldeburgh First Collection Prize

fragments of pop culture

The Home Child by Liz Berry <br><b>PBS RECOMMENDATION SPRING 2023</b><br> Emily Cotterill the well-known English letter cutter'Home's not a place, you must believe this, but one who names you and means beloved.' In 1908, Eliza Showell, twelve years old and newly orphaned, boards a ship that will carry her from the slums of the Black Country to rural Nova Scotia. She will never return to Britain or see her family again. She is a Home Child, one of thousands of British children sent to Canada to work as indentured farm labourers and domestic servants. In luminous and tender