The Hollow Girl (2025) by Australian writer Lyn Yeowart is set in Harrowford Hall, a home for unmarried mothers in regional Victoria.

The novel alternates between 1961 & 1973.

In 1961, 14-year-old Jan McEvoy is banished to Harrowford Hall because she is pregnant.

1973, Detective Sergent Eleanor Smith is assigned her first homicide case. A woman’s body has been found at Harrowford Hall. Given the state of the cemetery at Harrowford Hall, Smith concludes this is not the only suspicious death to occur on the premises.

The Hollow Girl draws on the history of forced adoption between the 1950s & 1980s in Australia when an estimated 250,00 babies were removed from their mothers against their will.