Philip Hensher

Alone in the world

As late as the 1930s, Hetty Day recalls of her orphanage childhood, ‘I was G80, my sister G90, my brother B52 — denoting Girl and Boy’

issue 04 August 2018

  • Orphans: A History

    Jeremy Seabrook

    Hurst, pp. 344

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