"An important and vital story"- Donna Everhart, USA Today bestselling author of The Saints of Swallow Hill
A searing book club read for fans of Ellen Marie Wiseman and The Girls with No Names set in the Baby Scoop Era of 1960s and the women of a certain condition swept up in a dark history.
It-s the 1960s and Lorraine Delford has it all - an upstanding family, a perfect boyfriend, and a white picket fence home in North Carolina. Yet every time she looks through her father-s telescope, she dreams of the stars. It-s ambitious, but Lorraine has always been exceptional.
But when this darling girl-next-door gets pregnant, she-s forced to learn firsthand the realities that keep women grounded.
To hide their daughter-s secret shame, the Delfords send Lorraine to a maternity home for wayward girls. But this is no safe haven - it-s a house with dark secrets and suffocating rules. And as Lorraine begins to piece together a new vision for