Poor Lamb, Poor Lamb

by Henry Hudson

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Pub Date 23 Nov 2017 | Archive Date 4 May 2018

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Poor lamb, poor lamb, that was what the nun said when he her asked if his parents were dead. It would take many decades before he discovered what she meant…

Frankie Lynham is about to undergo heart surgery. On the night before the operation he sits in his kitchen remembering how, just one year before, a woman arrived claiming to be his sister. Her visit rocked his world and launched him on a year-long quest to find out as much as he could about the family he had never known and above all, why his mother had abandoned him to the care of strangers.

He has until daybreak to try to make some sense of what he has found…