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The home for unwanted girls : a novel

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.

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  • ISBN: 9780062834089
  • ISBN: 0062834088
  • ISBN: 9780062684226
  • ISBN: 0062684221
  • Physical Description: 364 pages ; 23 cm.
    regular print
    print
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, [2018]
Subject: Québec (Province) History 20th century Fiction
Teenage mothers Fiction
Orphans Fiction
Canada English-French relations Fiction
Orphanages Canada 20th century Fiction
Abused children Fiction
Abandoned children Fiction
Mothers and daughters Fiction
Guilt Fiction
Teenage pregnancy Fiction
Genre: Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Historical fiction.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.

Available copies

  • 3 of 3 copies available at Skagit Evergreen Libraries. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at La Conner Swinomish Library District. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at La Conner Regional Library.

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  • 0 current holds with 3 total copies.
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