| Lisianthus |
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| 05/10/2008 22:45 |
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......impact on you, that it always springs to mind as an amazing read and eye-opener?
I read 'Empty Cradles' by Margaret Humphreys a few years ago, but I still have it and highly recommend it.
It is a shocking true story about children disappearing from children's homes, sometimes their parents were told they had died, and being shipped off to a 'new life' in Australia etc - the last as recently as 1967!
Please read it. It's a fantastic book.
Janine X
P.S. I must stop posting, as I have been on here nearly all day!
| annemari |
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| 05/10/2008 23:04 |
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Barbara Taylor Bradfords Trilogy starting with 'A Woman of Substance'
Very inspirational and all three re-readable over and over again.
I have read 'Empty Cradles' Janine, and yes,it is well worth a read.Certainly an eye-opener that's for sure.
Highly recommended.
| marina |
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| 06/10/2008 17:31 |
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Birdsong by Sebastien Faulks.
Couldn't put it down and wept openly as I read it. When I finished it I then went on to research WW1 in depth.
marina x
| dizeeblonde |
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| 06/10/2008 17:40 |
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Don't laugh but the first book I remember having an effect on me was The Lion The witch and The Wardrobe. It made me think about the battle of good v evil. I was about 7 and still think this was one of my favourite childhood books.
| cupcake |
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| 06/10/2008 18:20 |
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I also loved The Lion The Witch and the Wardrobe. We had a student teacher and she read it to us in class every afternoon. I was 8 or 9 so it would have been right at the beginning of the sixties. We had open coal fires as the only heating in our classroom.....
Wonderful memories!