The Home Child by Liz Berry
PBS RECOMMENDATION SPRING 2023
Emily Cotterill its uneasy silences broken by

its uneasy silences broken by the retort of punt guns

      peaceful as a dog glossed by the morning sun

fragments of pop culture

— Pamela Carter

' – Andy Croft

The Home Child by Liz Berry <br><b>PBS RECOMMENDATION SPRING 2023</b><br> Emily Cotterill its uneasy silences broken by'Home's not a place, you must believe this, but one who names you and means beloved.' In 1908, Eliza Showell, twelve years old and newly orphaned, boards a ship that will carry her from the slums of the Black Country to rural Nova Scotia. She will never return to Britain or see her family again. She is a Home Child, one of thousands of British children sent to Canada to work as indentured farm labourers and domestic servants. In luminous and tender