anjreading 's review for:

Keeping Lucy by T. Greenwood

4.0

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This was one of those books whose synopsis didn’t grab me, but I decided to read it anyway and ended up loving it. In the late 1960s, Ginny gives birth to a girl with Down’s syndrome. Her husband and father browbeat her into putting the child into an institution, but two years later an expose is published on the shocking abuses and conditions at the institution. Ginny and her best friend, along with Ginny’s six-year-old son in tow, set off to rescue Lucy and end up as fugitives, driving all the way from Massachusetts to Florida to keep Lucy out of the hands of the authorities.