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    The Home for Unwanted Girls

    The Home for Unwanted Girls

    by Joanna Goodman

    • Women's Fiction
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    A heart-wrenching mother-daughter story

    In 1950s Quebec, Maggie’s English-speaking father’s ambitions for his daughter don’t include marriage to Gabriel, a poor French boy. When she becomes pregnant at 15, her parents force her to give baby Elodie up for adoption.

    Elodie’s precarious existence takes a tragic turn when she and thousands of other orphans in Quebec are declared mentally ill, as a new law provides more funding to psychiatric hospitals than to orphanages. Elodie withstands abysmal treatment until, at 17, she is thrust into an alien, unnerving world.

    Maggie, now married to a businessman, realizes she must search for her long-lost daughter, and reclaim the truth that has been denied them, in this suspenseful, provocative novel filled with love, secrets, and deceit.

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    “A study of how love persists through the most trying of circumstances. Deep and meaningful.”—Booklist

    Additional Book Details

    Pages: 576
    Release Date: April 17, 2018
    ISBN: 9781683318675
    Club ID: 1420185
    Format: Large Print
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