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Oranges and Sunshine: Empty Cradles (Corgi books) (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 24 hours | |Short Description for Oranges and SunshineIn 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. This title reveals how she unravelled this shocking secret.
Full description- Publisher: Corgi Books
- Published: 01 December 2011
- Format: Paperback 384 pages
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- Categories: Migration, Immigration & Emigration | Age Groups: Children | Child Welfare | British & Irish History | Social & Cultural History | Family & Relationships | Adoption
- ISBN 13: 9780552163354 ISBN 10: 055216335X
- Sales rank: 974
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Oranges & Sunshine or Empty Cradles
This is one of the most thought provocking books I have read in a long time. It is written with such compassion and understanding I am amazed. Margaret Humphreys is a wonderful woman. This type of treatment should never have happened to children. The Governments and supposed welfare angencies have a lot to answer for, the total lack of assistance and care these children were given is a disgrace. I came out to Australia with my parents when I was eight years old and I can remember b3eing homesick and was bullied at school because I was different (Scots accent) but these children (a lot of them) did not even get a decent education or care and compassion to help them through a time when their whole world was turned upside down and they arrived in a country so very different from where they were born
I strongly recommend this book but be prepared to be shocked and horrified by what these children endured in the so called 'lucky country' by Margaret Johnston
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