01814cam a2200313 i 4500 1238338819 TxAuBib 20240508120000.0 230818s2024||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2023037984 9781728283098 HRD 32.99 1728283094 HRD 32.99 TxAuBib rda Church, Meagan, author. The girls we sent away [BOOK] : a novel / Meagan Church. Naperville, Illinois : Sourcebooks Landmark, [2024] 341 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes reading group guide. "It's the 1960s and Lorraine Delford has it all – an upstanding family, a perfect boyfriend, and a white picket fence home in North Carolina. Yet every time she looks through her father's telescope, she dreams of the stars. It's ambitious, but Lorraine has always been exceptional. But when this darling girl-next-door gets pregnant, she's forced to learn firsthand the realities that keep women grounded. To hide their daughter's secret shame, the Delfords send Lorraine to a maternity home for wayward girls. But this is no safe haven – it's a house with dark secrets and suffocating rules. And as Lorraine begins to piece together a new vision for her life, she must decide if she can fight against the powers that aim to take her child or submit to the rules of a society she once admired.". 20240508. Teenage pregnancy Fiction. Pregnant teenagers Fiction. Maternity homes Fiction. Feminism Fiction. North Carolina Fiction.