Coram Boy (Winner Of The Whitbread Children'S Book Award)The Whitbread 2000 Book of the Year is a haunting and captivating work of historical fiction for children. The Coram man takes babies and money from desperate mothers, promising to deliver them safely to a Foundling Hospital in London. Instead, he murders them and buries them by the roadside, to the helpless horror of his mentally ill son, Mish. Mish saves one, Aaron, who grows up happily unaware of his history, proving himself a promising musician.

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vitality and idealism brought up against the brutal machinery of repression

” Unable to control her destructive power

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The proper use of praise and discipline

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a book about depression that isn't a prescriptive self-help manual

But Chono and Esek are haunted in turn by a figure from their shared past