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Author:

Goodman, Joanna, 1969- author.

Title:

The home for unwanted girls : a novel / Joanna Goodman.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Harperan imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

364 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

Teenage pregnancy--Fiction.
Guilt--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Abandoned children--Fiction.
Abused children--Fiction.
Orphanages--Canada--History--20th century--Fiction.
Canada--English-French relations--Fiction.
Psychiatric hospitals--Fiction.
FICTION--Family Life.
FICTION--Historical.
Teenage pregnancy.
Orphanages.
Mothers and daughters.
Guilt.
Abused children.
Abandoned children.
Orphans.
Teenage mothers.
Canada.
Teenage mothers--Fiction.
Orphans--Fiction.
Family life--Fiction.
Québec (Province)--History--20th century--Fiction.
1900-1999
Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
History.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.

Summary:

In 1950s Quebec, French and English tolerate each other with precarious civility--much like Maggie Hughes' parents. Maggie's English-speaking father has ambitions for his daughter that don't include marriage to the poor French boy the next farm over. But Maggie's heart is captured by Gabriel Phénix. When she becomes pregnant at fifteen, her parents send the baby Elodie to an orphanage where she receives horrible treatment. Seventeen years later, 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.

ISBN:

9780062834089
0062834088
9780062684226
0062684221

OCLC:

(OCoLC)995335674

LCCN:

2018276355

Locations:

RGPA371 -- Churdan Public Library (Churdan) — Copies: 6