The Fallen Woman's Daughter

<p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)></span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>A compelling poignant story. </strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Michelle Cox writes flawed fascinating women with understanding compassion and grace-I rooted for them with every turn of the page!- Kate Quinn </span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>New York Times</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> best-selling author</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Cox offers </span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>a powerful saga</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> that plunges into the complexity of family love forgiveness and the cyclical nature of three-generational family dynamics.-</span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Booklife</em><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)> Editor's pick</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)></span><strong style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>An addictive read!</strong><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>-</span><em style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Kirkus Reviews</em></p><p></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>When eight-year-old Nora arrives at the Park Ridge School for Girls in 1932 she is sure there's been some mistake. She can't imagine why she and her little sister Patsy were torn from their mother only to be subjected to the cruel whims of the house matron Mrs. Morris. When their mother fails to rescue them week after week-and Mrs. Morris drops hints that their mother may be a fallen woman-Nora begins to doubt they will ever see her again.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Nine years prior at seventeen Gertie Gufftason runs off with Lorenzo the barker for the traveling carnival passing through her small coal-mining town in Southern Iowa. Thinking she is embarking on a fantastic adventure Gertie is bitterly disappointed by the life that follows and is thrown into despair when the State removes their two daughters.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Gertie eventually tracks down her girls at the Park Ridge but expecting a warm welcome she is shocked by Nora's cool reception. Nora reluctantly returns home with Gertie and Patsy determined to live a more perfect life than her mother. It is only when she discovers a secret Gertie has kept hidden all these years that Nora begins to fully understand-and forgive-her mother's tragic choices . . .</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(15 17 17 1); background-color: rgba(255 255 255 1)>Perfect for readers who enjoy sweeping generational sagas featuring a mother-daughter bond tested across decades sisters who survive a girls' home together a long-buried family secret and Depression-era women fighting to reclaim what was taken from them.</span></p><p></p><p></p>