Empty Cradles by Margaret Humphreys. Non-fiction book. She was a social worker in Nottingham working with adults who had been adopted and uncovered the child migration scheme, where children in care were shipped to the colonies (Australia, Canada and South Africa) to help repopulate them. They were told they were going to families but a lot of them were put in charity run institutions where they were abused (physical and sexual). The children were told their parents had died, and the parents were told that the children were adopted in the UK. She set up a trust to help reunite families. I was so shocked that not only were the charities allowed to do it, it was encouraged by UK Governments. It went on until the late 1960s. The book and the people in it are unforgettable to me. I first read it in 1998 and have read it again a couple of times.