Coram Boy Ex-school Copy by Jamila Gavin

Synopsis

Otis takes babies and money off desperate mothers promising to deliver them to the Coram Foundling Hospital in London. Instead he murders them and buries them by the roadside to the helpless horror of his mentally ill son Mish. When Melissa beloved of Alexander Ashbrook and daughter of his governess becomes pregnant by him her mother arranges for the Otis to take the child telling Melissa it was stillborn. Alexander not knowing Melissa`s condition has fled his home for a career in music. But Mish manages to save Melissa`s baby Aaron and he grows up with Toby the son of an African slave inseparable friends. Toby is a plaything at the house of rich Mr Gaddarn who is in fact Otis. When Mish sees Aaron and Alexander together and realises the family link he takes Aaron and Toby to Otis who rejects them. A way must be found to rescue them but a great friend must die before the family can be reunited.

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