**PopSugar's 30 Must-Read Books of 2019** **Good Housekeeping's 25 Best New Books for Summer 2019** **Better Homes & Gardens 13 New Books We Can't Wait to Read This Summer** _The heartbreaking and uplifting story, inspired by true events, of how far one mother must go to protect her daughter_.
Keeping Lucy
โ Scribed by T. Greenwood
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Publishing Group;St. Martin's Press
- Year
- 2019
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 182 KB
- Edition
- First edition
- Category
- Fiction
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โฆ Synopsis
PopSugar's 30 Must-Read Books of 2019
Good Housekeeping's 25 Best New Books for Summer 2019
Better Homes & Gardens 13 New Books We Can't Wait to Read This Summer
The heartbreaking and uplifting story, inspired by true events, of how far one mother must go to protect her daughter.
Dover, Massachusetts, 1969. Ginny Richardson's heart was torn open when her baby girl, Lucy, born with Down Syndrome, was taken from her. Under pressure from his powerful family, her husband, Ab, sent Lucy away to Willowridge, a special school for the "feeble-minded." Ab tried to convince Ginny it was for the best. That they should grieve for their daughter as though she were dead. That they should try to move on.
But two years later, when Ginny's best friend, Marsha, shows her a series of articles exposing Willowridge as a hell-on-earth--its squalid hallways filled with neglected children--she knows she can't leave her daughter...
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