The Home for Unwanted Girls

by Joanna Goodman · 2018

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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.

Themes
mother daughtermother daughterMore like thisLess of this
Setting
1950s1950sMore like thisLess of this20th century20th centuryMore like thisLess of thisCanadaCanadaMore like thisLess of thisQuebecQuebecMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 364 pages

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