Stephanie Sy-Quia

More penny dreadful than Dickensian: Lily, by Rose Tremain, reviewed

A foundling girl is terrified of being hanged for murder. But the abuse she has suffered seems to have been overhastily stuffed into the narrative

A view of London’s Foundling Hospital, after an engraving of 1751. [Alamy]
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  • Lily

    Rose Tremain

    Chatto, pp. 288, £13

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