Oranges and Sunshine
  • Published: 13 October 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448125135
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 384
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Oranges and Sunshine

Empty Cradles

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Now a major film, the book that exposed the scandal of Britain's forgotten and abused child migrants, previously published as Empty Cradles

Also published as Empty Cradles.

In 1986 Margaret Humphreys, a Nottingham social worker, investigated a woman's claim that, aged four, she had been put on a boat to Australia by the British government. At first incredulous, Margaret discovered that this was just the tip of an enormous iceberg. Up to 150,000 children, some as young as three years old, had been deported from children's homes in Britain and shipped off to a 'new life' in distant parts of the Empire, right up until as recently as 1970.

Many were told that their parents were dead, and parents often believed that their children had been adopted in Britain. In fact, for many children it was to be a life of horrendous physical and sexual abuse far away from everything they knew. Margaret reveals how she unravelled this shocking secret and how it became her mission to reunite these innocent and unwilling exiles with their families in Britain before it was too late.
  • Published: 13 October 2011
  • ISBN: 9781448125135
  • Imprint: Transworld Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 384
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About the author

Margaret Humphreys

Margaret Humphreys is the Director and founder of the Child Migrants Trust, supported by Nottinghamshire County Council. For her services on behalf of the child migrants, she has been awarded the Order of Australia - one of only a few Britons ever to have been so honoured. She lives in Nottingham with her husband and two children.

Also by Margaret Humphreys

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Praise for Oranges and Sunshine

The secrets of the lost children of Britain may never have been revealed if it had not been for [the actions of] Margaret Humphreys.

Sunday Times

A modern Florence Nightingale.

Sydney Morning Herald

A truly astonishing, haunting, real-life detective story.

She (Australia)

Brought tears to my eyes. It is impossible to read...without thinking "These could be my parents. These could be my children."...Despite the sadness and anger at its centre, hope remains the principle message of this remarkable book.

Terry Waite, The Times

It is a story that defies belief.

Independent