num_pages: 480
description: INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLERLondoners Eleanor and Edward Hamilton have wealth status and a happy marriagebut the 1929 financial crash is looming and theyre harboring a terrible shameful secret. How far are they willing to go to protect their charmed lifeeven if it means abandoning their child to a horrific fate? Eleanor Hamilton is happily married and mother to a beautiful four-year-old girl Mabel. Her wealthy husband Edward a celebrated war hero is a leading light in the burgeoning Eugenics movementthe very ideas that will soon be embraced by Hitlerand is increasingly important in designing education policy for Great Britain.But when Edward and Eleanors otherwise perfectly healthy daughter develops debilitating epileptic seizures their world fractures. Mabels shameful illness must be hidden or Edwards lifes work will be in jeopardy and the familys honor will be shattered.When Eleanor discovers Edward has been keeping secrets she calls into question everything she believed about genetic inferiority and her previous unshakeable faith in her husband disintegrates. Alarmed distressed and no longer able to bear the familys burden she takes matters into her own hands.
language: English
title: The Hidden Child
publisher: William Morrow Paperbacks