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The Home for Unwanted Girls

The Heart-Wrenching, Gripping Story of a Mother-daughter Bond That Could Not Be Broken - Inspired by True Events

The Home for Unwanted Girls( )
Author: Goodman, Joanna
ISBN:978-0-06-268424-0
Publication Date:Apr 2018
Publisher:HarperCollins Publishers
Imprint:Harper Paperbacks
Book Format:Ebook
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Book Description:

Philomena meets Orphan Train in this suspenseful, provocative novel filled with love, secrets, and deceit--the 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 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 on...
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Book Details
Pages:384
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / Family Life / General
Author Biography
Goodman, Joanna (Author)
Joanna Goodman is a Canadian author, born in 1969 in Montreal. Her stories have been published in The Fiddlehead, The Ottawa Citizen, B&A Fiction, Event, The New Quarterly, and White Wall Review. Excerpts of her writing have been published in, A Room at the Heart of Things, a fiction anthology by Elisabeth Harvor. She is the author of five novels, The Finishing School, The Home for Unwanted Girls, Harmony, You Made Me Love You, and Belle of the Bayou.

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