![]() ![]() However, of course, it’s not that simple as a fantastical, imaginative story emerges woven in with several aspects of nature which mingles with fables and legends especially those from Gaelic folklore. ![]() It’s well documented that mother and baby homes in this era have terrible reputations, look no further than the Magdalene laundries. In this one motherhood is the principal theme, specifically unmarried mothers and their treatment and lack of power at this time. This is another clever, creative and different Gothic tale from CJ Cooke. Pearl is treading where Mabel treads before her and their stories become entangled and intertwined. There are many rumours about the Whitlocks and certainly the ghost woods, trees with pale ghostly trunks that are on their property adds to the strangeness. She’s heavily pregnant and being taken to a mother and baby home in the Scottish Borders which is a 16th Century Manor House called Lichen House and is owned by the Whitlock family. Now: Pearl Gorham, September 1965, aged 22 and a nurse. It must be the ghosts inside her as they make her do some strange things. Then: Dundee, May 1959, Mabel Haggith aged 17 visits the doctor with her mother, they say she’s pregnant but she doesn’t understand as she’s done nothing wrong. ![]()
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