Tag Archives: Foster care

Rousseau and The Paris Foundling Hospital

Posted on July 17, 2022 by Rosie Canning

Born: 28 June 1712 Geneva Died: 2 July 1778 Ermenonville Partner: Thérèse Levasseur (1745–1778) Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a philosopher, writer, and composer. He was in kinship and foster care as a child. Rousseau’s mother died shortly after his birth and his father abandoned … Continue reading →

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My Name is Leon

Posted on June 12, 2022 by Rosie Canning

My Page Forty-Three… “When Sir Lenny Henry was narrating the audiobook version of Kit de Waal’s novel My Name Is Leon, he had decided by lunchtime on the first day of recording that he wanted to make a TV version … Continue reading →

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One Christmas Night by Hayley Webster

Posted on December 16, 2019 by Rosie Canning

One Christmas Night opens at 3.08 a.m., Christmas Eve in Newbury Street, Norwich with a thief about to break into one of the houses: The thief has always loved the thick silence that comes at this very specific time in the … Continue reading →

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Girl With Dove: A Life Built By Books by Sally Bayley

Posted on December 7, 2018 by Rosie Canning

SALLY BAYLEY put herself into care aged fourteen and remains the only person to study at university from the West Sussex Care Service. She is currently a Teaching and Research Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute at the University of … Continue reading →

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Quieter Than Killing by Sarah Hilary

Posted on October 4, 2017 by Rosie Canning

Sarah Hilary has worked as a bookseller, and with the Royal Navy. Her debut novel, Someone Else’s Skin (2014), won the Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year 2015, and was a World Book Night selection for 2016. The … Continue reading →

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The Brightness of Stars by Lisa Cherry

Posted on August 27, 2017 by Rosie Canning

Lisa Cherry starts the journey of her life with a quote from Mitch Albom, The Five People You Meet in Heaven (2003): All parents damage their children. It cannot be helped. Youth, like pristine glass, absorbs the prints of the … Continue reading →

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All the Good Things – Clare Fisher: Q&A

Posted on July 20, 2017 by Rosie Canning

Clare Fisher was born in Tooting, south London in 1987. After accidentally getting obsessed with writing fiction when she should have been studying for a BA in History at the University of Oxford, Clare completed an MA in Creative and … Continue reading →

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Top Twelve Reads 2016

Posted on January 3, 2017 by Rosie Canning

My plan at the beginning of 2016 was to read Orphan Lit and review it. Here are some of my favourite reads, in no particular order, some reviewed and some not, from last year and nearly all of them feature … Continue reading →

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My Name is Leon by Kit de Waal

Posted on April 4, 2016 by Rosie Canning

My Name is Leon, is about two brothers, white Jake and mixed-race Leon, who are separated in foster care. The title of the book tells us this is Leon’s story, he is going to tell us how it really is. … Continue reading →

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