I thought this was an excellent novel. A woman named Margaret gave birth to a daughter with Down Syndrome in 1947 and at that time these children were referred to as 'unfinished'. Margaret's story is interspersed throughout the book with that of Marie. Marie is married with two daughters. But at the age of thirty-nine she finds out she is pregnant. Although she and her husband didn't want any more children, the hardest thing will be telling her best friend Elizabeth. After years of fertility treatments Elizabeth and her husband have not been able to conceive. So you think you have already figured it out, don't you! Marie will have the baby and give it to grateful Elizabeth.......this book is a lot deeper than that. The characters will draw you in. The descriptions of institutions in the '40's will break your heart. The dilemmas faced by these women may be ones faced by someone you know. I doubt that anyone can read it and not be touched.
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