The Home Child

*WINNER OF THE WRITERS' PRIZE - BOOK OF THE YEAR* Inspired by a true story, The Home Child is a beautiful novel-in-verse about a child far from home ‘Ground-breaking’ Benjamin Zephaniah ‘Beautifully crafted’ Guardian ‘Extraordinary’ Hannah Lowe 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 or see her family again. With nothing to call her own, the wild beauty of her su