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Keeping LucyGreenwood, T.

Keeping Lucy

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"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…

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4 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2020
    St. Martin's Griffin · 320 pages · 9781250164230
  • Audiobook · English · 2019
    Macmillan Audio · 9781250257758
  • Hardcover · English · 2019
    St. Martin's Press · 320 pages · 9781250164223
  • Other · English · 2019
    St. Martin's Press · 304 pages · 9781250164247
American literatureMothers and daughtersFictionDown syndromePrivate schoolsRunaway women