Keeping lucy - t. greenwood

This story will have readers not only rooting for Ginny and Lucy, but thinking about them long after the last page is turned.

-- Lisa Wingate, New York Times Bestselling Author of Before We Were Yours PopSugars 30 Must-Read Books of 2019 Good Housekeepings 25 Best New Books for Summer 2019 Better Homes & Gardens 13 New Books We Cant Wait to Read This Summer T.

Greenwoods Keeping Lucy is a heartbreaking and uplifting story, inspired by incredible true events, of how far one mother must go to protect her daughter.

Dover, Massachusetts, 1969.

Ginny Richardsons 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 Ginnys 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 cant leave her daughter there.

With Ginnys 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 mothers love can take her.

A heartrending yet inspiring novel that kept me reading late into the night.

--Kristina McMorris, New York Times bestselling author of Sold on a Monday and The Edge of Lost.