The author claims that up to 150, 000 children, the last as recently as 1967, were deported from British children's homes and shipped off to a "new life" in dis

Originally published as: Empty cradles. Great Britain: Doubleday, 1994.

The New York Times–bestselling author’s Whitbread Prize–winning debut—“Winterson has mastered both comedy and tragedy in this rich little novel” (Th

Originally published in 1989. The extraordinary story of Britain’s child migrants is one of 350 years of shaming exploitation. Around 130,000 children, some j

"Douglas Sackman peels an orange and finds inside nothing less than an American agricultural-industrial culture in all its inventive, exploitative, transformati