{"product_id":"9781780314518_coram-boy-ideal-for-the-2024-and-2025-exams","title":"Coram Boy: Ideal for the 2024 and 2025 exams","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe modern classic and Whitbread Book of the Year 2000 is a haunting, thrilling and captivating story, for historical fiction fans and readers of Hilary McKay’s \u003cem\u003eThe Skylark’s War \u003c\/em\u003eand Katherine Rundell’s \u003cem\u003eThe Good Thieves \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Coram man takes babies and money from desperate mothers, promising to deliver them safely to a Foundling Hospital in London. Instead, he murders them and buries them by the roadside, to the helpless horror of his son, Mish.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMish saves one, Aaron, who grows up happily unaware of his history, proving himself a promising musician. As Aaron's new life takes him closer to his real family, the watchful Mish makes a terrible mistake, delivering Aaron and his best friend Toby back into the hands of the Coram man.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA gripping and haunting story about a dark time in British history, Coram Boy won the 2000 Whitbread Children's Book of the Year, was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal and has been adapted into a highly acclaimed stage play.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jamila Gavin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47267878142101,"sku":"9781780314518","price":5.99,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0484\/3175\/9509\/files\/9781780314518.png?v=1776890045","url":"https:\/\/harpercollins.com.au\/products\/9781780314518_coram-boy-ideal-for-the-2024-and-2025-exams","provider":"HarperCollins AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}