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“Lily by Rose Tremain ” is a good book that you can read online or download to read it later. Before starting the reading or downloading, here is the summary of the book that you can read.Abandoned at the gates of a London park one winter’s night in 1850, baby Lily Mortimer is saved by a young police constable and taken to the London Foundling Hospital. Lily is fostered by an affectionate farming family in rural Suffolk, enjoying a brief childhood idyll before she is returned to the Hospital, where she is punished for her rebellious spirit. Released into the harsh world of Victorian London, Lily becomes a favoured employee at Belle Prettywood’s Wig Emporium, but all the while she is hiding a dreadful secret…Across the years, policeman Sam Trench keeps watch over the young woman he once saved. When Sam meets Lily again, there is an instant attraction between them and Lily is convinced that Sam holds the key to her happiness – but might he also be the one to uncover her crime and so condemn her to death

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Placed with a Suffolk family, the Bucks, Lily Mortimer as she is named, spends the first 6 years of her life as the beloved daughter of Perkin and Nellie. Life isn’t easy on the farm and she still has to pull her weight helping with the chores, picking stones on the fields and sewing but it’s a house full of love and comfort.When she suddenly finds herself being taken to London and wrenched from Nellie’s arm Lily’s lost. Head shaved, scrubbed with lye soap and her clothes and boots replaced with the Coram uniform she’s put to work with the other foundlings, castigated for the sins of her mother and shown nothing but bitterness and spite by Nurse Maud.Escaping with her bedmate Bridget who also desperately misses her foster family the two girls set off on an adventure to go home only to be returned to the very place they fled.