My husband once described an early draft of The Edward Street Baby Farm as “your biography of Harriet Lenihan”. It’s not quite that, but Harriet Patricia Lenihan certainly had a central role in the 1907 murder trial at the heart
Dr Edward ‘Ned’ Officer
One of the factors that led me to write The Edward Street Baby Farm was the unexpected backgrounds of the three main characters. I found them intriguing. Alice Mitchell, the ‘baby farmer’, was related to some of the most influential