Dress Codesby Noelle HoweySimilar age/author pick
About this book
In the early 1940s, following the death of their mother, Evelyn Stemp, aged four, and her two sisters were taken into care. Thus begins a harsh regime that takes the girls from a children's home to being fostered by a cruel couple who confine the children to the scullery. Thankfully, the children's fortunes finally change and they complete their childhood in a happy rural home. But when, in her adult life, Evelyn sets out to discover her past, the memories of neglect come flooding back.
