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Love child or bastard: the lottery of being born on the wrong side of the blanket

In the Family Way by Jane Robinson comprises over 100 heartbreaking personal accounts of illegitimacy in the 20th century

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issue 21 March 2015
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  • In the Family Way: Illegitimacy between the Great War and the Swinging Sixties

    Jane Robinson

    Viking, pp. 336

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