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 historyIts 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 fathers telescope she dreams of the stars Its ambitious but Lorraine has always been exceptionalBut when this darling girlnextdoor gets pregnant shes forced to learn firsthand the realities that keep women groundedTo hide their daughters secret shame the Delfords send Lorraine to a maternity home for wayward girls But this is no safe haven its a house with dark secrets and suffocating rules And as Lorraine begins to piece together a new vision for her life she must decide if she can fight against the powers that aim to take her child or submit to the rules of a society she once admiredPowerful and affecting The Girls We Sent Away is a timely novel that explores autonomy belonging and a quest for agency when the illusions of lifeasyouknowit fall away
