<p><b>If you’re a fan of Jodi Picoult, you’ll love <i>Necessary Lies</i> by Diane Chamberlain, bestselling author of <i>The Midwife</i>’<i>s Confession . . . </i></b><br><br>North Carolina, 1960. Newlywed Jane Forrester, fresh out of university, is seeking what most other women have shunned: a career.<br><br>But life as a social worker is far from what she expected. Out amongst the rural tobacco fields of Grace County, Jane encounters a world of extreme poverty that is far removed from the middle-class life she has grown up with.<br><br>But worse is still to come. Working with the Hart family and fifteen-year-old Ivy, it’s not long before Jane uncovers a shocking secret, and she is thrust into a moral dilemma that puts her career on the line, threatens to dissolve her marriage and, ultimately, determines the fate of Ivy and her family forever.<br><b
