Sally: the story of a foster-girl

✍ Scribed by John Metcalfe

• Book ID: 111695947
• Publisher: C. Scribner's Sons ; C. Scribner's Sons Ltd., New York, London
• Year: 1936
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 494 KB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

The story of a foster child whose life is built on a tissue of lies which trip her up at every fresh start. Her early life is spent with an ex-dancer who is paid by the mother who wishes her identity concealed -- a Zeppelin bomb, on a London street, puts an end to that. Next -- a period of comparative happiness in an orphan asylum of glorified sorts. Then -- adoption, by a gentleman whose perverted tastes run to little girls -- and escape. Rediscovery, by a friend of the foster-mother, and virtual adoption by the man who was the supposedly the real mother's husband. Again, hints of perversion and escape. A strange love affair -- desertion -- an abortion -- and a steady downhill skid, winding up with a murder trial for the death of the supposed father, who had attacked her.