The author claims that up to 150, 000 children, the last as recently as 1967, were deported from British children's homes and shipped off to a "new life" in dis

Originally published as: Empty cradles. Great Britain: Doubleday, 1994.

“A free-wheeling vehicle . . . an unforgettable ride!”—The New York Times Cat’s Cradle is Kurt Vonnegut’s satirical commentary on modern man and his m

Originally published in 1989. The extraordinary story of Britain’s child migrants is one of 350 years of shaming exploitation. Around 130,000 children, some j

In 1959 David Hill's mother - a poor single parent living in Sussex - reluctantly decided to send her sons to Fairbridge Farm School in Australia where, she was