| Description |
534 pages (large print) ; 23 cm |
| Physical Medium |
large print. rdafs |
| Note |
Regular print version previously published by Atria Books. |
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Includes author's note with background information. |
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Includes reading group guide with discussion questions and an interview with the author. |
| Summary |
"Three women's lives are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother's love, and a secret network of people fighting for the right to choose. 2017: When Angela Creighton discovers a mysterious letter containing a life-shattering confession, she is determined to find the intended recipient. Her search takes her back to the 1970s when a group of daring women operated an illegal underground abortion network in Toronto known only by its whispered code name: Jane. 1971: As a teenager, Dr. Evelyn Taylor was sent to a home for 'fallen' women where she was forced to give up her baby for adoption-a trauma she has never recovered from. Despite harrowing police raids and the constant threat of arrest, she joins the Jane Network as an abortion provider, determined to give other women the choice she never had. 1980: After discovering a shocking secret about her family, twenty-year-old Nancy Mitchell begins to question everything she has ever known. When she unexpectedly becomes pregnant, she feels like she has no one to turn to for help. Grappling with her decision, she locates 'Jane' and finds a place of her own alongside Dr. Taylor within the network's ranks, but she can never escape the lies that haunt her"--Inside dust jacket. |
| Subject |
Abortion Counseling Service -- Fiction.
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Women -- Canada -- Fiction.
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Abortion -- Fiction.
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Abortion services -- Ontario -- Toronto -- Fiction.
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Reformatories for women -- Fiction.
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Adoption -- Fiction.
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Choice (Psychology) -- Fiction.
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Reproductive rights -- Canada -- Fiction.
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Motherhood -- Fiction.
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Toronto (Ont.) -- Fiction.
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| Genre |
Historical fiction.
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Large print books.
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| ISBN |
9781638087250 (large print : hc.) |
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1638087253 (large print : hc.) |
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