It wasn’t just the sign that got Ellis Reed’s attention. The two lean boys with their icy blue eyes reminded him of the brother he had lost. On impulse he snapped the photograph that began a story that twists and turns without warning. When I began this book, it felt heart breaking but almost simple. Rather like the boys behind the carved sign ‘2 children for sale’. Ellis Reed, a struggling journalist with the Philadelpia Examiner, didn’t know that this photograph would define his career. He gained further success when he was hired by the Herald Tribune in New York.
Lillian Palmer, also employed at the same Philadelphia Examiner, was relegated to being the secretary for the editor. She dreamt of being a journalist in her own right, but was hampered by her position in the society of the 1930’s. Prior to Ellis leaving for New York, Lily did slip the photograph onto the editor’s desk. She encouraged Ellis to write the article that became a source of guilt for him. Guilt because of the second photograph that he took to accompany the article.
Both Ellis and Lily had difficulties in their personal lives that coloured the actions that they took to return two children, Ruby and Calvin to their mother, Geraldine. Their nose for investigation and reporting took them down dangerous paths to right the events that followed from Ellis’ original article.
“A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.”
~ Kristina McMorris, Sold on a Monday
Title: Sold on a Monday
Author: Kristin McMorris
Copyright: 2018
Publisher: Sourcebooks Landmark
Type: Novel
Format: Soft Cover
LCCN - 2017061403
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