The Glass House
By DINNERLADY
@lazydaizee (6738)
United Kingdom
October 13, 2022 3:40am CST
The start of this story takes us back to 1971 when the main character, a young woman named Rita, finds herself a new job as a Nanny to a wealthy London family. After working for them for a short time the family home is mysteriously burned down. This means that they have to relocate to a large family home in The Forest of Dean, taking Rita with them.
They are just settling into their new life in the country when something very strange happens. They find a tiny baby that has been abandoned on a tree trunk in the woods. Rita thinks that they should do the right thing and take the baby to the authorities, but the family have other ideas. They want to keep the baby and bring it up as their own because they think it would be cruel to have the baby put in care. However, Rita is worried about how the mother of the baby will be feeling if she decides that she has made a huge mistake.
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@arunima25 (85366)
• Bangalore, India
13 Oct 22
Enjoy reading. Have you already finished reading it or still to finish? Hope the story is interesting.
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@lazydaizee (6738)
• United Kingdom
13 Oct 22
I am nearly at the end now. It is one of those books that is hard to put down once I start to read.
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@arunima25 (85366)
• Bangalore, India
13 Oct 22
@lazydaizee Sounds quite interesting one
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@lazydaizee (6738)
• United Kingdom
14 Oct 22
@arunima25 I have now finished this book and there were several unexpected twists in the story that I did not expect. It was about a family that had many secrets like some families do.
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@DaddyEvil (137142)
• United States
13 Oct 22
It sounds interesting. I just downloaded it to my laptop. Thank you.
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@lazydaizee (6738)
• United Kingdom
14 Oct 22
@DaddyEvil Have you started reading it yet?
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@lazydaizee (6738)
• United Kingdom
13 Oct 22
I hope you enjoy reading it, let us know what you thought of it.
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@lazydaizee (6738)
• United Kingdom
21 Dec 22
Yes it is a great read, I enjoyed it so much that I could not put it down once I began to read it.
@Fleura (29131)
• United Kingdom
14 Oct 22
@lazydaizee Intriguing! Did you enjoy it?
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@lazydaizee (6738)
• United Kingdom
14 Oct 22
@Fleura Yes, it was one of the best books that I have read all year.
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@lazydaizee (6738)
• United Kingdom
14 Oct 22
I agree because in real life somebody would have reported it. However, at the end of the story, I found out how this really happened. This story takes place in an area where there are not many people around and the few local people who were involved all knew what was going on and they all agreed that this particular baby would have been better off with the wealthy family than being put in care or staying with the real mother. The real mother was very young and did not know she was pregnant until she gave birth. This meant that it was all very hush hush, and no authorities would have been involved at all.
There is also a twist in the story involving the nanny, a local man, the baby and another child
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@lazydaizee (6738)
• United Kingdom
13 Oct 22
I found it very interesting although it was rather sad in places.
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@lazydaizee (6738)
• United Kingdom
13 Oct 22
You may be able to buy this book online, but I got my copy from my local library.
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@stringer321 (5643)
• Kiryat Ata, Israel
16 Oct 22
Thank you for sharing the start of the story, I guess the baby grows up and doesn't know his biological mother, until they meet. Then the background of the story becomes clear more and more, we get to know why the baby got abandoned in first place, who knows...
Can you please tell some more about the story ?
