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    The Hired Baby
    The Hired Baby
    The Hired Baby
    Audiobook50 minutes

    The Hired Baby

    Written by Marie Corelli

    Narrated by Cathy Dobson

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    About this audiobook

    Marie Corelli (1855 - 1924) was an eccentric British novelist who enjoyed great literary success from the publication of her first novel in 1886 until World War I.

    Corelli's novels sold more copies than the combined sales of popular contemporaries, including Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, and Rudyard Kipling and she was the most widely read popular author of her day.

    Her fans included Winston Churchill, Mark Twain and the British Royal Family.

    The Hired Baby is a short story which gives a breathtaking snapshot of Victorian London life.

    Liz, a young street rents a sickly newborn by the day from its grasping low-life parents, in the hope of attracting greater sympathy from passers by. She encounters mised reactions, from cruel scorn to genuine charity.

    She visits a Catholic church, and is mystified as to why people pray to a statue of a woman with a baby. Over time, Liz develops a deep love for the sick baby, often denying herself food in order to buy milk for the infant.

    As the baby grows weaker, Liz's life too seems to lose meaning and purpose, until one New Year's Eve the situation comes to a head.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRed Door Consulting
    Release dateDec 4, 2013
    ISBN9781467675635
    The Hired Baby
    Author

    Marie Corelli

    Marie Corelli (1 May 1855 – 21 April 1924) was an English novelist and mystic. She enjoyed a period of great literary success from the publication of her first novel in 1886 until World War I. Sales of Corelli's novels exceeded the combined sales of popular contemporaries, including Arthur Conan Doyle, H. G. Wells, and Rudyard Kipling, although critics often derided her work as "the favourite of the common multitude". (Wikipedia)

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