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Orphanage Girls #3
The Orphanage Girls Come Home
'These heartbreaking but also inspirational tales are full of the grit and hardship that have become hallmarks of a storyteller who writes straight from the heart.' - Lancashire Evening Post
London, 1910
When Amy is chosen to be a part of a programme to resettling displaced children in Canada, her life changes overnight. Her great sadness is having to say goodbye to Ruth and Ellen, the friends who became family to her during the dark days at the orphanage. As she steps on board the ship to Montreal, the promise of a new life lies ahead. But during the long crossing, Amy discovers a terrifying secret.
Canada, 1919
As the decades pass, Amy’s Canadian experience is far from the life she imagined. She always kept Ruth’s address to hand – longing to return to London and reunite with her dear friends. With the world at war, it seems an impossible dream . . .
Separated by oceans, will Amy the orphanage girl ever come home?
London, 1910
When Amy is chosen to be a part of a programme to resettling displaced children in Canada, her life changes overnight. Her great sadness is having to say goodbye to Ruth and Ellen, the friends who became family to her during the dark days at the orphanage. As she steps on board the ship to Montreal, the promise of a new life lies ahead. But during the long crossing, Amy discovers a terrifying secret.
Canada, 1919
As the decades pass, Amy’s Canadian experience is far from the life she imagined. She always kept Ruth’s address to hand – longing to return to London and reunite with her dear friends. With the world at war, it seems an impossible dream . . .
Separated by oceans, will Amy the orphanage girl ever come home?
362 pages, Kindle Edition
Published May 25, 2023
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November 9, 2023
I really enjoyed this story and the characters and just have one small niggle. I know how the characters spoke in the book was how they would speak coming from where they did but for me there was an over use of ‘me’, ‘yer’ and ‘oh’ with phrases said more than once when once would have been enough. Also the phrase ‘for free’ really bugs me even though it is used so commonly in every day soeech. You can have some thing free like buy one get one free or you can have sonething for an amount but you don’t get something for free.
The book had a strong feel good factor though.
The book had a strong feel good factor though.
May 15, 2023
This is the third and final book in The Orphanage Girls series and I have loved reading every one. This final one brings the lives of three girls to a conclusion as the author gives us the chance to see what happened to Amy. She was shipped off to Canada, it is supposed to be a fresh start but finds that life there can be just as dangerous as the one in the orphanage. It is 1910 when she sets out and while she is out there she never forgets her friends or where she came from.
Her life is taken up as a helper for families, she is to work like a servant in the homes of people, not all are trustworthy or treat her as they should. She does get the chance to move families and she begins to realise that there can be a chance of a new life. As things begin to settle the first world war breaks out and things change, lives are lost and hardship follows.
It is 1919 when Amy gets the chance to return and waiting are her two friends, Ellen and Ruth. They have been through some tough times as Amy has, but they have all come through it and want to discover more of their pasts. Over the years the girls have met new people and formed new friendships, but they have never forgotten each other.
Once again the author has woven a story of heartbreak for her girls, she has taken them and given them hardships in their lives that would be similar to what people would have been going through at the time. Poverty, disease, illness and deprivation were rife. Soldiers coming back from war struggled to cope and how the poorest found desperate ways to make a meal or pay the bills.
The story is about Amy, but it is also about bringing the lives of the girls back together again. The author has taken Amy and shown a different aspect of what life could be like, for those who had the promise of a new start and life in a different country. But at the same time, she is able to bring things up to date with the lives of Ellen and Ruth.
Working the storylines of the girls, their families and friends over the course of three books has been such a wonderful journey. The author takes you back in time to an era that is very, very different from what we now live in. Giving each of her characters a personality that shows differing perspectives, hopes, dreams and upbringings is a way of giving the reader a good cross-section of society at the time.
Another wonderful story of family, friendship, love and hope. One for fans of drama and saga stories, historical fiction and romance and one I would definitely recommend.
Her life is taken up as a helper for families, she is to work like a servant in the homes of people, not all are trustworthy or treat her as they should. She does get the chance to move families and she begins to realise that there can be a chance of a new life. As things begin to settle the first world war breaks out and things change, lives are lost and hardship follows.
It is 1919 when Amy gets the chance to return and waiting are her two friends, Ellen and Ruth. They have been through some tough times as Amy has, but they have all come through it and want to discover more of their pasts. Over the years the girls have met new people and formed new friendships, but they have never forgotten each other.
Once again the author has woven a story of heartbreak for her girls, she has taken them and given them hardships in their lives that would be similar to what people would have been going through at the time. Poverty, disease, illness and deprivation were rife. Soldiers coming back from war struggled to cope and how the poorest found desperate ways to make a meal or pay the bills.
The story is about Amy, but it is also about bringing the lives of the girls back together again. The author has taken Amy and shown a different aspect of what life could be like, for those who had the promise of a new start and life in a different country. But at the same time, she is able to bring things up to date with the lives of Ellen and Ruth.
Working the storylines of the girls, their families and friends over the course of three books has been such a wonderful journey. The author takes you back in time to an era that is very, very different from what we now live in. Giving each of her characters a personality that shows differing perspectives, hopes, dreams and upbringings is a way of giving the reader a good cross-section of society at the time.
Another wonderful story of family, friendship, love and hope. One for fans of drama and saga stories, historical fiction and romance and one I would definitely recommend.
December 8, 2023
Rating: 4.5 Stars
Mary Wood aims for the heart and does not miss with her latest stirring, dramatic and emotional new saga, The Orphanage Girls Come Home.
London, 1910 and Amy has just been chosen to be part of a programme to resettle displaced children in Canada. Although this seemingly wonderful opportunity for Amy will change her entire life overnight, she is sad that she will have to leave behind the only two people in the world who have always been there for her and who are like family to her: her friends Ruth and Ellen. However, Amy is excited about the future that lies ahead – until she boards the ship to Montreal and makes a terrifying discovery as a shocking secret comes to light. Will the promises made about her new life in Canada turn out to be nothing but lies? Just what lies in store for Amy? And should she have stayed in London with people who cared about her rather than leave everything she knows for an uncertain future in a foreign land far away?
Years later, and Amy’s Canadian experience has been far from what she had hoped for. Her life has been plagued by anguish, heartache and pain, yet she has never lost hope. Her friend Ruth’s address has always been in her possession and the longing to go back home to London has never left her. Amy yearns for nothing more than to be reunited with Ruth and Ellen, but with the world in turmoil, the war tearing everyone’s lives apart and an ocean between them, will the orphanage girls ever be reunited? Or is Amy destined never to see her dear friends ever again?
Master storyteller Mary Wood writes gritty, heartbreaking yet ultimately uplifting sagas that never fail to hit the spot and she has done it again with The Orphanage Girls Come Home. A poignant tale of friendship, sacrifice and love best read with a huge box of tissues, Mary Wood’s The Orphanage Girls Come Home is a beautiful story about never losing hope, the ties that bind and the human spirit’s indefatigable courage that is hard to put down and even harder to forget.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an Advanced Reader Copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
Mary Wood aims for the heart and does not miss with her latest stirring, dramatic and emotional new saga, The Orphanage Girls Come Home.
London, 1910 and Amy has just been chosen to be part of a programme to resettle displaced children in Canada. Although this seemingly wonderful opportunity for Amy will change her entire life overnight, she is sad that she will have to leave behind the only two people in the world who have always been there for her and who are like family to her: her friends Ruth and Ellen. However, Amy is excited about the future that lies ahead – until she boards the ship to Montreal and makes a terrifying discovery as a shocking secret comes to light. Will the promises made about her new life in Canada turn out to be nothing but lies? Just what lies in store for Amy? And should she have stayed in London with people who cared about her rather than leave everything she knows for an uncertain future in a foreign land far away?
Years later, and Amy’s Canadian experience has been far from what she had hoped for. Her life has been plagued by anguish, heartache and pain, yet she has never lost hope. Her friend Ruth’s address has always been in her possession and the longing to go back home to London has never left her. Amy yearns for nothing more than to be reunited with Ruth and Ellen, but with the world in turmoil, the war tearing everyone’s lives apart and an ocean between them, will the orphanage girls ever be reunited? Or is Amy destined never to see her dear friends ever again?
Master storyteller Mary Wood writes gritty, heartbreaking yet ultimately uplifting sagas that never fail to hit the spot and she has done it again with The Orphanage Girls Come Home. A poignant tale of friendship, sacrifice and love best read with a huge box of tissues, Mary Wood’s The Orphanage Girls Come Home is a beautiful story about never losing hope, the ties that bind and the human spirit’s indefatigable courage that is hard to put down and even harder to forget.
I voluntarily read and reviewed an Advanced Reader Copy of this book. All thoughts and opinions are my own.
May 30, 2023
Amy's story.
The year is 1910 and Amy at twelve years old leaving the Calton orphanage in Bethnal Green London on a ship to Canada.
Separated from her two friends Ruth who runs away and Ellen who has gone to live with her dad, it will be nine long years before they are all together on English soil, she longs to come home and this big adventure isn't a happy one for her, she promises to write to Ruth, and is once again back in Ellen and Ruth's arms, the Orphanage Girls are together forever in the final instalment their journey is now complete and what a trilogy this has been, that will fill up all your emotions.
I wanted this book to last forever, so much hard work has gone into it, that you learn as you read, it's a happy but also a sad ending, and will pleasure readers as it did me.
I eagerly await more from this author in a new series hopefully very soon, new characters, new places, and a new story that you will grip once again into your heart.
The year is 1910 and Amy at twelve years old leaving the Calton orphanage in Bethnal Green London on a ship to Canada.
Separated from her two friends Ruth who runs away and Ellen who has gone to live with her dad, it will be nine long years before they are all together on English soil, she longs to come home and this big adventure isn't a happy one for her, she promises to write to Ruth, and is once again back in Ellen and Ruth's arms, the Orphanage Girls are together forever in the final instalment their journey is now complete and what a trilogy this has been, that will fill up all your emotions.
I wanted this book to last forever, so much hard work has gone into it, that you learn as you read, it's a happy but also a sad ending, and will pleasure readers as it did me.
I eagerly await more from this author in a new series hopefully very soon, new characters, new places, and a new story that you will grip once again into your heart.
May 31, 2023
Beautiful ending to a fantastically written saga.
June 2, 2023
I have loved this trilogy of books. Cried with the story lines and laughed with some too but fell in love with all the people in it. Well worth reading.x
July 1, 2023
This book is absolutely fantastic ,brilliant story line and an excellent way to end a series, from sadness to happiness.Well done Mary Wood can’t wait to read your next book xx
July 23, 2023
Another great end to the series ❤️ very heart warming in places and sad. But in the end the girls get what they most want love from a man that loves them for who they are and also their mum ❤️
August 23, 2023
This book was truly Fantastic, I couldn't put it down I read it in 2 days.
Would Amy, Rurh and Ellen find true happiness? read it to find out
Would Amy, Rurh and Ellen find true happiness? read it to find out
November 25, 2023
A great finish to this trilogy, Mary Wood always writes a great story and this was no exception.
December 24, 2023
Another great story
Thank you so much Mary again you have given us another fabulous story. It was lovely to read about the 3 girls and there lives. A book worth reading.
Thank you so much Mary again you have given us another fabulous story. It was lovely to read about the 3 girls and there lives. A book worth reading.
February 23, 2024
Read all three books really enjoyed them all.
April 25, 2024
Good read
November 14, 2024
What a lovely ending to this trilogy. Loved following Ruth , Ellen and Amy from childhood. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
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