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dont get it. This book had such a high rating so I expected so much more from it, I found it to be a monumental letdown,

It starts with a young teenager Maggie who falls in love with someone Gabriel that her parents do not approve of, They send her away to stay with her aunt and uncle to get her away from him, She finds out shes pregnant and eventually gives birth to Elodie who is stolen from Maggie and sent to an orphanage,

I listened to it in audiobook form so Im notsure if it was the writing or the narration that sounded juvenile, but I suspect it was a bit of both.
The narrators inflections and tone just sounded very childish in some places and I found that to be very grating, That said, there were also parts of the book that felt as though they had been written by a teenager, The love story between Maggie and Gabriel is the prime example of this, Every detail of how it was written just seemed far too convenient for something that was meant to be historically accurate, I found the entire book to be very cliche and seemed to be written by someone who really didnt have a lot of knowledge about anything not love, or child birth, or reality.


The rape by her uncle was wasted words and nothing more than filler, And her entire marriage was almost laughable, She can carry babies only by Gabriel Just wraps it all up nicely so theres no need to tackle anything more difficult than a fluffy little romance.


It wasnt even edited well, At one point, Maggies father called her husband Roger, His name was Roland. I think this is where I gave up all hope for this one,

Overall, the story of Elodie was intriguing and I did enjoy that part but not enough to give this anything more thanstars,

I recently read Before We Were Yours and I cant even describe how incredible that book was, I went into this one hoping for the same, But this was the B version of that, If you read Harry Potter and then tried to read Twilight, you will understand this analogy, This book was the Twilight version,.

Was not a bad story at all but I honestly did not warm up to any of the characters except Elodie, Most of the other characters were not very likable, The writing was great but the characters I could not warm up to, I had pretty good expectations for this book because my grandmother said she loved it, But unfortunately the characters let me down for the most part,

My quick and simple overall: good story and worth a read, Trends I dont know if it is me, but Im feeling as though publishers are offering a lot of COMPELLING, HIDDEN IN THE PAST, SHOCKING, TRUE STORY of.
these days

Are we so hooked on reality TV or the old Apprentice host that we need all of those headlines

Or are these kinds of stories grabbing publishers attentions simply because they know we will be shocked to know how power has been so meanly abused barely a century ago, almost where we could be living ourselves over us, a friend or a neighbour Not at some border.
No. But in the course of trying to get through a hard stage of life,

BEFORE WE WERE YOURS by Lisa Wingate is the most recognizable of these kinds of novels, It takes place in Mississippi in thes, when an unwed mothers State Home operator and her cohort, the Adoption Agency, set up shop looking for as many pretty blonde blue eyed babies they could find in addition to the ones actually arriving in need of Home services.
I reviewed it on my page,

I admit to being more greatly captivated by THE HOME FOR UNWANTED GIRLS, by Joanna Goodman,



The authorss writing styles are actually quite similar, each developing character thoroughly as possible in what would have been their real life situations and carefully threading history into the personal story which is the essential fabric of the life of the story.


Still, I found the Quebec, Canada circumstances especially fascinating, As I followed the plight of the families, I was equally enthralled in Goodmans very thorough treatment of the pertinent history,

From the stories of Maggie, the young mom who lost her babe Elodie,moving on to the diabolical mess of the Quebec orphanage system, to Gabriel the young father and the intervening years when Elodies story takes precedence, the novel begins to tragically meld and then a builds to a frantic urgency.
I wondered when, if, how, this will end, . .

A great tale, very well supported by the facts and well written enough to inspire further research,

The facts led me to further dig into the history of what are known as the “Duplessis Orphans”, Further background leads belief that some very powerful psychiatric drugs, only in their testing stages, were used on those children as well, This jibes with the authors narratives,

Goodman, I think, has done a good job on opening the door on a really horrific period I knew nothing about,

I was a wee child in Quebec, Canada with my family, part of which would have been during Duplessis terms as provincial leader, I recall how the Catholic Church and Duplessis were always spoken of with a kind of a sneer I was only very little!

What came to pass in Quebec did and could, because Duplessis exerted a totally different sort of power in government than in the rest of Canada.
He had pulled power from the Catholic Church which had held sway since thes, put them to work in the social services areas of health and education at low wages, and then saved his government massive expenditures.

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“A modernizer except in political methodology, Duplessis perfected the techniques of the past in exalting the Québec state to an unprecedented position of strength in relation to the church, the federal government and the AngloSaxon Montréal business establishment.
His system depended upon employing the clergy at bargain wages to do what was really secular work in schools and hospitals, while reducing the episcopate to financial dependence reducing taxes, balancing budgets and persuading the conservatives and nationalists to vote together for "autonomy" as he called it.


Source : The Canadian Encyclopaedia
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I like historical fiction well treated by its factual structure, especially when its significant theme is central, Joanna Goodman has done a standout job out here,

Goodman is masterful at characterisation as well, Each individual is sketched in powerful contrast to the other, and the force of their personalities surprisingly moved years in handfuls of pages, as I eagerly read on.
Suddenly, Élodie was praying to be let out after Duplessiss death while a smirking nun is lying about her dead mother nearby, her mother Maggie finds evidence in her dead dads store of the adoption and a place to start to look.
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Numbers vary but it is around,children who were essentially incarcerated, The government admitted that a third didnt need to be there, and gave them a very small settlement,

Duplessis died in, A Quiet Revolution occurred in thes which completely secularised government,

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