Provides more funding to psychiatric hospitals than to orphanages.īright and determined, Elodie withstands abysmal treatment at the nuns’ In Quebec, is declared mentally ill as the result of a new law that Takes a tragic turn when Elodie, along with thousands of other orphans
When she becomes pregnantĪt fifteen, her parents force her to give baby Elodie up for adoption Maggie’s heart is captured by Gabriel Phénix. Include marriage to the poor French boy on the next farm over. Maggie’sĮnglish-speaking father has ambitions for his daughter that don’t With precarious civility – much like Maggie Hughes’ parents. In 1950s Quebec, French and English tolerate each other In this suspenseful, provocative novel filled with love, secrets, andĭeceit – the story of a young unwed mother who is forcibly separatedįrom her daughter at birth and the lengths to which they go to find each
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