Church Meagan - The Girls We Sent Away A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: " An important and vital story." Donna Everhart US a Today bestselling author of The Saints of Swallow Hill" Engaging shocking heart - wrenching." Library Journal A searing book club read for fans of Ellen Marie Wiseman and The Girls with No Names set in the Baby Scoop Era of the 1960s about the women of a certain condition swept up in a dark history. It's the 1960s and Lorraine Delford has it all an upstanding family a perfect boyfriend and a white picket fence home in North Carolina. Yet every time she looks through her father's telescope she dreams of the stars. It's ambitious but Lorraine has always been exceptional. But when this darling girl - next - door gets pregnant she's forced to learn firsthand the realities that keep women grounded. To hide their daughter's secret shame the Delfords send Lorraine to a maternity home for wayward girls. But this is no safe haven it's a house with dark secrets and suffocating rules. And as Lorraine begins to piece together a new vision for her life she must decide if she can fight against the powers that aim to take her child or submit to the rules of a society she once admired. Powerful and affecting The Girls We Sent Away is a timely novel that explores autonomy belonging and a quest for agency when the illusions of life - as - you - know - it fall away.
Title: The Girls We Sent Away A Novel
Author(s): Church Meagan
Publisher: Sourcebooks Inc
Barcode: 9781728257181
Pages: 352 Pages
Publication Date: 3/5/2024
Category: Fiction: Special Features