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Leaving Lucy Pear [large print] / Anna Solomon.

Solomon, Anna, (author.).

Summary:

One night in 1917, Beatrice Haven sneaks out of her uncle's house in Cape Ann, Massachusetts, leaves her newborn baby at the foot of a pear tree, and watches as another woman claims the infant as her own. The unwed daughter of wealthy Jewish industrialists and a gifted pianist bound for Radcliffe, Bea plans to leave her shameful secret behind and make a fresh start. Ten years later, Prohibition is in full swing, post-WWI America is in the grips of rampant xenophobia, and Bea's hopes for her future remain unfulfilled. She returns to her uncle's house, seeking a refuge from her unhappiness. But she discovers far more when the rum-running manager of the local quarry inadvertently reunites her with Emma Murphy, the headstrong Irish Catholic woman who has been raising Bea's abandoned child now a bright, bold, cross-dressing girl named Lucy Pear, with secrets of her own.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781683240945
  • ISBN: 1683240944
  • Physical Description: 447 pages (large print) : maps ; 23 cm
  • Edition: Center Point Large Print edition.
  • Publisher: Thorndike, Maine : Center Point Large Print, 2016.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Originally published: New York : Viking, 2016.
Subject:
Mothers and daughters > Fiction.
Abandoned children > Fiction.
Nineteen twenties > Fiction.
Ann, Cape (Mass.) > Fiction.
Genre:
Large print books.
Historical fiction.

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  • 8 of 8 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Stanly County Public Library.

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