Coram Boy, 9780008772840
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Desperate mothers, stolen babies, dark secrets. Can innocence survive?
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    368 pages

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    29 December 2025

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Summary

A Dark Secret, A Stolen Life: The Haunting Tale of Coram Boy

The Whitbread 2000 Book of the Year: A haunting and captivating work of historical fiction.

The Coram man preys on desperate mothers, taking their babies and money with the promise of safe delivery to a Foundling Hospital in London. His sinister deception hides a horrifying truth: he murders the infants, burying them by the roadside, a secret witnessed in helpless horror by his mentally ill son, Mish.

Mish …

Book Details

ISBN-13:9780008772840
ISBN-10:0008772843
Series:HarperCollins Children’s Classics
Author:Jamila Gavin
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:Farshore
Format:Paperback
Number of Pages:368
Release Date:29 December 2025
Weight:240g
Dimensions:198mm x 129mm x 23mm
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‘Jamila Gavin is one of our greatest writers’ – S.F. Said

About The Author

Jamila Gavin

Jamila Gavin was born in Mussoorie, India, in the foothills of the Himalayas. With an Indian father and an English mother, she inherited two rich cultures which ran side by side throughout her life, and which always made her feel she belonged to both countries. The family finally settled in England where Jamila completed her schooling, was a music student, worked for the BBC and became a mother of two children. It was then that she began writing children’s books, and felt a need to reflect the multi-cultural world in which she and her children now lived.

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