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Fiction featuring Care Experience

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The Franchise Affair (novel)

Josephine Tey

2022

The Franchise Affair (1948) by Josephine Tey (Elizabeth MacKintosh 1896-1952) is 1 of 3 novels republished by Penguin in 2022 to mark the occasion of 70 years since Tey died.

Set in the village of Milford, Surrey, two upper class women, Marion Sharpe and her mother, are accused and, eventually, charged with kidnapping, imprisoning in their attic for a month, starving and beating 15-year-old, Betty Kane. Local solicitor, Robert Blair, is asked to represent the Sharpe women and quite early decides they couldn’t possibly have committed the crime.

Betty Kane is a war orphan, an adoptee.

Children and young people in social care, and those who have left, are often subject to stigmatisation and discrimination. Being stigmatised and discriminated against can impact negatively on mental health and wellbeing not only during the care experience but often for many years after too. The project aims to contribute towards changing community attitudes towards care experienced people as a group. See glossary HERE


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