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02909aim a22004095a 4500 001 10E9212E6CA011E9A39CB90697128E48 003 SILO 005 20190502010142 006 m o h 007 sz zunnnnnuned 007 cr nnannnuuuua 008 190308s2019 xxunnn es f n eng d 020 $a 0062897462 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 020 $a 9780062897466 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 028 42 $a MWT12195316 040 $a Midwest $e rda $d SILO 082 04 $a 813/.6 $2 23 100 1 $a Wood, Shelley, $e author. 245 14 $a The Quintland sisters : $b a novel $h [electronic resource] / $c Shelley Wood. 250 $a Unabridged. 264 1 $a [United States] : $b HarperAudio, $c 2019. 300 $a 1 online resource (1 audio file (660 min.)) : $b digital. 506 $a Digital content provided by hoopla. 511 0 $a Read by Tavia Gilbert. 520 $a In Shelley Wood's fiction debut, readers are taken inside the devastating true story of the Dionne Quintuplets, told from the perspective of one young woman who meets them at the moment of their birth. Reluctant midwife Emma Trimpany is just 17 when she assists at the harrowing birth of the Dionne quintuplets: five tiny miracles born to French farmers in hardscrabble Northern Ontario in 1934. Emma cares for them through their perilous first days and when the government decides to remove the babies from their francophone parents, making them wards of the British king, Emma signs on as their nurse. Over 6,000 daily visitors come to ogle the identical "Quints" playing in their custom-built playground; at the height of the Great Depression, the tourism and advertising dollars pour in. While the rest of the world delights in their sameness, Emma sees each girl as unique: Yvonne, Annette, CcÌile, Marie, and |milie. With her quirky eye for detail, Emma records every strange twist of events in her private journals. As the fight over custody and revenues turns increasingly explosive, Emma is torn between the fishbowl sanctuary of Quintland and the wider world, now teetering on the brink of war. Steeped in research, The Quintland Sisters is a novel of love, heartache, resilience, and enduring sisterhood-a fictional, coming-of-age story bound up in one of the strangest true tales of the past century. 538 $a Mode of access: World Wide Web. 650 0 $a Dionne quintuplets $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Midwives $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Quintuplets $z Ontario $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Diaries $v Fiction. 700 1 $a Gilbert, Tavia. 710 2 $a hoopla digital. 856 40 $u https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12195316 $z Instantly available on hoopla. 856 42 $z Cover image $u https://d2snwnmzyr8jue.cloudfront.net/hpc_9780062897466_180.jpeg 941 $a 1 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20190802010244.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=10E9212E6CA011E9A39CB90697128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search