Empty Cradles (Oranges and Sunshine)

Empty Cradles (Oranges and Sunshine)
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Publisher : Random House
Total Pages : 384
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ISBN-10 : 9781446464465
ISBN-13 : 1446464466
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Book Synopsis Empty Cradles (Oranges and Sunshine) by : Margaret Humphreys

Download or read book Empty Cradles (Oranges and Sunshine) written by Margaret Humphreys and published by Random House. This book was released on 2011-03-25 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE BOOK THAT EXPOSED THE HEARTBREAKING SCANDAL OF BRITAIN'S FORGOTTEN AND ABUSED CHILD MIGRANTS - now a film, Oranges and Sunshine, starring Emily Watson. In 1986 Margaret Humphreys, a Nottingham social worker, investigated a woman's claim that, aged four, she had been put on a boat to Australia by the British government. At first incredulous, Margaret discovered that this was just the tip of an enormous iceberg. Up to 150,000 children, some as young as three years old, had been deported from children's homes in Britain and shipped off to a 'new life' in distant parts of the Empire, right up until as recently as 1970. Many were told that their parents were dead, and parents were told that their children had been adopted. In fact, for many children it was to be a life of horrendous physical and sexual abuse far away from everything they knew. Margaret and her team reunited thousands of families before it was too late, brought authorities to account, and worldwide attention to an outrageous miscarriage of justice.


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