The elderly couple who had been the family’s servants took her in, hoping that the new parson would employ them and help the child. Her childhood home had been a country parsonage, and she had been a much loved only child, but when her parents died, one after the other, she found herself alone in the world with no family to claim her. Hester was a bright young woman who had very bad luck. The Morning Herald, Tuesday 13 September 1831Īnd then it told me the story of Hester White. Scarcely a week passes without the occurrence of an incident of this type’ ‘This newspaper has taken note that the past month has been remarkable for the prevalence of cases where men, women and children are declared missing. On a dark winter night, a book that promised to draw me back into the 19th century, into a story of family secrets and terrible crimes, called to me.
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