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.
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Anne Dover has recorded many audiobooks, as well as appearing on radio and television—Emmerdale Farm, Book Tower, Brideshead Revisited, A Kind of Loving. She’s happily married and shares an old cottage in a small Yorkshire village with her husband, her son, an English setter, a large French lop rabbit, and an equally large and hairy cat.