Secret Storms: A Mother and Daughter Lost then Found

An Indie Reader Discovery Award and National Indie Excellence Book Award Winner. A pregnant nineteen-year-old Philadelphia Main Line debutante is confined against her will to a state mental hospital. She spends her pregnancy surrounded by the mentally challenged and the criminally insane. On April 19 1964 she gives birth to a child whom she is forced to give up for adoption. A loving middle-class couple adopts a month-old little girl from Catholic Charities. She is adored and cherished from the very beginning. It is as though she is dropped into the first chapter of a fairy tale-- but we all know how fairy tales go. This is the story of a mother and daughter. Of what it is to give up a child and what it is to be given up. Of what it is to be a family and to never lose hope-- because anything is possible. In this award-winning memoir Julie Mannix von Zerneck and Kathy Hatfield recount the stories of their lives. Written in two distinct and deeply expressive voices their stories seamlessly meld together toward a breathtaking ending.