Dreaded Workhouse

The book is about a man who was born in a Workhouse. His mother died soon after he was born. He remained in the care of the Workhouse authorities for a few years before he was found a foster home. But he went through the rest of his life haunted by the shame and guilt that he felt came with being born in a workhouse. He believed that HE should have been the one to die and NOT his mother.