GIRLS IN TROUBLE - CAROLINE LEAVITT 0749934328 Piatkus

Girls In Trouble - Caroline Leavitt

‘Thank God we live in modern times…’ Her mother had told her. ‘When I was growing up there was a home for wayward girls right in my town. The Girls In Trouble House we called it, even though its name was just Saint Luke’s. It was terrible…You went to a place like that and your life was over and everyone knew it.’

For Sara, sixteen and pregnant, it still feels as if her life is over. Her once-devoted boyfriend seems to have disappeared, and her only option left is to have her baby adopted. She chooses George and Eva, an older couple desperate for a child. And, despite her mother’s concerns, she opts for an open adoption, the chance to have a continued involvement in her child’s life. But after the birth it’s clear that Sara has a bond with her daughter that Eva can’t seem to duplicate. And when Sara can’t let go, Eva and George make a drastic decision with far-reaching consequences for all of them.

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