The Home for Unwanted Girls: The Heart-Wrenching, Gripping Story of a Mother-Daughter Bond That Could Not Be Broken - Inspired by True Events Paperback - 2018
by Joanna Goodman
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Philomena meets The Orphan Train in this heart-wrenching story of a mother- daughter bond that could not be broken-a novel inspired by true events.
In 1950s Quebec, the French and English tolerate each other with precarious civility--much like Maggie Hughes's parents. Maggie's English-speaking father has ambitions for his daughter that don't include marriage to the poor French boy, Gabriel Phénix, on the neighboring farm. But Maggie's heart is captured by Gabriel. When she becomes pregnant at fifteen, her parents force her to give baby Elodie up for adoption and get her life "back on track."
Elodie is raised in Quebec's impoverished orphanage system. It's an insecure enough existence that takes a tragic turn when Elodie, along with thousands of other orphans in Quebec, is declared mentally ill as the result of a new law that provides more funding to psychiatric hospitals than to orphanages. Withstanding abysmal treatment at the nuns' hands, Elodie finally earns her freedom at seventeen, when she is thrust into an alien, often unnerving, world.
Maggie, married to a businessman who is eager to start a family, cannot forget the daughter she was forced to abandon, and a chance reconnection with Gabriel spurs a wrenching choice. Over the years Maggie's and Elodie's lives have intertwined but never touched, but they are finally brought together when Maggie goes in search of her long-lost daughter, reclaiming the truth that has been denied them both.
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- Title The Home for Unwanted Girls: The Heart-Wrenching, Gripping Story of a Mother-Daughter Bond That Could Not Be Broken - Inspired by True Events
- Author Joanna Goodman
- Binding Paperback
- Pages 384
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Paperbacks
- Date 2018-04-17
- ISBN 9780062684226 / 0062684221
- Weight 1 lbs (0.45 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 1.1 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 2.79 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Mothers and daughters, Domestic fiction
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.6
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Citations
- Booklist, 03/01/2018, Page 36
- Kirkus Reviews, 02/15/2018, Page 13
- Library Journal, 03/15/2018, Page 90
- Publishers Weekly, 02/26/2018, Page 0
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