THE BUTTERFLY COLLECTOR

THE BUTTERFLY COLLECTOR by Tea Cooper

The Butterfly Collector is a moving story set in Australia. The story bounces back and forth between 1868 and 1922 and revolves around the difficult topic of baby farming. Baby farming was the practice of taking young women who found themselves in unwed pregnancy situations, giving them a place to birth, and then, with parent's permission, putting the babies up for adoption. The distasteful part of the practice was the "adoption" was actually the selling of the babies for high profits. Often the babies were kept in terrible conditions and sometimes died as a result.

Verity Binks is waiting for her big break in the world of journalism. When an anonymous package puts her on the trail of a story that holds that possibility, she jumps at the opportunity never guessing that her family is at the heart of the story she is pursuing. The more she digs up, the more she must determine if she will have the courage to follow this story to the end.

HEADS UP- There are a total of 2 swear words. The book does deal with the difficult topic of unwed pregnancy. There are no intimate details of how the pregnancies come about.