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The Throwaway Children

This compelling saga follows two young sisters cruelly separated from their family and sent to an orphanage. It delves into a dark period where vulnerable children were stripped of their rights and treated as commodities. Discover their harrowing journey as they fight for survival in a harsh world, desperately seeking a path back to their loved ones.

The Throwaway Children

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    The Throwaway Children

    • 496 pages
    • 18 hours of reading
    4.2(187)Add rating

    Rita and Rosie Stevens are only nine and five years old when their widowed mother marries a violent bully called Jimmy Randall and has a baby boy by him. Under pressure from her new husband, she is persuaded to send the girls to an orphanage - not knowing that the papers she has signed will entitle them to do what they like with the children. And it is not long before the powers that be decide to send a consignment of orphans to their sister institution in Australia. Among them - without their family's consent or knowledge - are Rita and Rosie, the throwaway children

    The Throwaway Children