A review by yooperann
Child of My Heart by Alice McDermott

5.0

The novel takes place over a few weeks in a seaside Long Island town, but it seems to contain the whole world. There are lots of sad and neglected children, and calm, competent, enchanting Theresa to look after them. There's enough foreshadowing that you know pretty early on everyone is not going to live happily ever after. But the characters, especially Theresa, are drawn so compellingly that you don't want to part with them when the book is over.

This would be a great book club book, perhaps even for a mother and teen daughters group.