The Home Child Av Liz Berry

<p><b>Inspired by a true story, a beautiful novel-in-verse about a child far from home. From award-winning poet Liz Berry.<br><br>*SHORTLISTED FOR THE WRITERS'' PRIZE FOR POETRY 2024*</b><br><br>''A <b>profound act of witness</b> to a long injustice, and a <b>beautifully crafted conjuring of a life lived as truly as possible</b>'' <b><i>Guardian </i>''Book of the Day''</b><br><b>''Ground-breaking'' Benjamin Zephaniah<br>''Exquisite'' Hannah Lowe</b>, author of <i>The Kids</i><br><br><b>''<i>Home''s not a place, you must believe this,</i></b><br><b><i>but one who names you and means </i>beloved<i>.</i>''</b><br><br>In 1908, Eliza Showell, twelve years old and newly orphaned, boards a ship that will carry her from the slums of the Black Country to rural Nova Scotia. She will never return to Britain or see her family again. She is a Home Child, one of thousands of British children sent to Canada to work as indentured farm labourers and domestic servants.<br><br>In Nova Scotia, Eliza''s wo