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#BookReview: Keeping Lucy by T. Greenwood #5STARS @tgwood505 @StMartinsPress

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My Review: 5 STARS

Amazing writing, amazing story telling and I could not stop reading it until the last page!

Honestly, I was just going to “preview” a bit of this novel, and planned on reading it next month. That never happened. – I became so absorbed in the story and so invested in the characters that I simply couldn’t put the book down!

It was such a compelling story line and I just fell in love with little Lucy and truly cared about her and her mom, Ginny. I had to see the story through to the end.

It was 1969 and Ginny’s baby girl, Lucy was born with Down’s Syndrome. Ginny was tricked by her high and mighty family into committing Lucy to an institution named Willowridge.

Oh, the horrors that come out about what has been taking place at Willowbridge, prompt Ginny and her bestie, Martha (who I also loved)! to grab baby Lucy and take off on a Thelma and Louise inspired road trip! I found myself cheering these ladies on and wanting to cuddle Lucy myself!

I teared up, I took deep breaths, and I delighted in everything Lucy!

Okay…..  I Loved Lucy!  xoxoxo

Highly recommend you read it and fall in love too.

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Book Description:

From the author of Rust & Stardust comes this heartbreaking story, inspired by true events, of how far one mother must go to protect her daughter. 

Dover, Massachusetts, 1969. Ginny Richardson’s heart was torn open when her baby girl, Lucy, born with Down Syndrome, was taken from her. Under pressure from his powerful family, her husband, Ab, sent Lucy away to Willowridge, a special school for the “feeble-minded.” Ab tried to convince Ginny it was for the best. That they should grieve for their daughter as though she were dead. That they should try to move on.

But two years later, when Ginny’s best friend, Marsha, shows her a series of articles exposing Willowridge as a hell-on-earth–its squalid hallways filled with neglected children–she knows she can’t leave her daughter there. With Ginny’s six-year-old son in tow, Ginny and Marsha drive to the school to see Lucy for themselves. What they find sets their course on a heart-racing journey across state lines—turning Ginny into a fugitive.

For the first time, Ginny must test her own strength and face the world head-on as she fights Ab and his domineering father for the right to keep Lucy. Racing from Massachusetts to the beaches of Atlantic City, through the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia to a roadside mermaid show in Florida, Keeping Lucy is a searing portrait of just how far a mother’s love can take her.

 

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  5. I was going to tell you that I lost you in my WP feed for a long time and thought you were no longer blogging. I saw a Twitter post you made, hunted you down and now it looks like you are back in my feed!

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    • It is weird because blogs I followed were unfollowed (WHAT??) and I had to re-follow them. I don’t understand, but don’t see yours or other favorites in my feed either. so frustrating Tina!

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