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Keeping Lucy
by T. Greenwood
A beautiful and heartwarming story about the bonds between a mother and child. T. Greenwood has written a story that illustrates what lengths a mother will go to protect her child. A child whom she has had no relationship with other than carrying her for nine months.
Ginny gives birth to her second child, Lucy. Lucy is born with Down Syndrome and doctors insist that she will not live long. Ginny’s husband and father-in-law sign away parental rights and institutionalize Lucy without Ginny having any knowledge. Despite having no connection with a daughter who was taken from her two years prior; Ginny learns of the appalling and disturbing ways in which children, including her own daughter, Lucy, are being treated at the Willowridge School. Immediately, Ginny seeks to find out for herself and to her disbelief, finds that the allegations against the school are credible. She removes her daughter from the school and ventures on a journey with her son and her friend to try and work out a plan to keep Lucy and regain full parental custody.
Greenwood illustrates the bonds that form so naturally between mother and child despite being apart for so long. She also sheds light on the gruesome horrors of institutions many years ago. The neglect and abuse that many children endured in these institutions are unfathomable but a part of our history. Greenwood did a great job in depicting these circumstances while minimizing any sensationalism.
Thank you St. Martin’s Press via Netgalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review!
Ginny gives birth to her second child, Lucy. Lucy is born with Down Syndrome and doctors insist that she will not live long. Ginny’s husband and father-in-law sign away parental rights and institutionalize Lucy without Ginny having any knowledge. Despite having no connection with a daughter who was taken from her two years prior; Ginny learns of the appalling and disturbing ways in which children, including her own daughter, Lucy, are being treated at the Willowridge School. Immediately, Ginny seeks to find out for herself and to her disbelief, finds that the allegations against the school are credible. She removes her daughter from the school and ventures on a journey with her son and her friend to try and work out a plan to keep Lucy and regain full parental custody.
Greenwood illustrates the bonds that form so naturally between mother and child despite being apart for so long. She also sheds light on the gruesome horrors of institutions many years ago. The neglect and abuse that many children endured in these institutions are unfathomable but a part of our history. Greenwood did a great job in depicting these circumstances while minimizing any sensationalism.
Thank you St. Martin’s Press via Netgalley for this ARC in exchange for an honest review!