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Author Goodman, Joanna, author

Title The home for unwanted girls : The heart-wrenching, gripping story of a mother-daughter bond that could not be broken ́ђأ inspired by true events / Joanna Goodman.

Publication Info. 2018.

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Summary Philomena meets The Orphan Train in this suspenseful, provocative novel filled with love, secrets, and deceit́ђؤthe story of a young unwed mother who is forcibly separated from her daughter at birth and the lengths to which they go to find each other.In 1950s Quebec, French and English tolerate each other with precarious civilitýђؤmuch like Maggie Hughes' parents. Maggie's English-speaking father has ambitions for his daughter that don't include marriage to the poor French boy on the next farm over. But Maggie's heart is captured by Gabriel Phe⁺ѓnix. 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 a precarious 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. Bright and determined, Elodie withstands abysmal treatment at the nuns' hands, finally earning her freedom at seventeen, when she is thrust into an alien, often unnerving world.Maggie, married to a businessman eager to start a family, cannot forget the daughter she was forced to abandon, and a chance reconnection with Gabriel spurs a wrenching choice. As time passes, the stories of Maggie and Elodie intertwine but never touch, until Maggie realizes she must take what she wants from life and go in search of her long-lost daughter, finally reclaiming the truth that has been denied them both.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. New York : Harper Paperbacks, 2018. Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 939 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB) or Amazon Kindle (file size: N/A KB).
Subject Fiction.
Historical Fiction.
Literature.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Original 9780062684226
ISBN 9780062684240 (electronic bk)
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