Keeping Lucy by T. Greenwood
This is EASILY the best book I've read this year.
When Ginny has her baby daughter, she's immediately taken away from her. Her husband and father-in-law spirit baby Lucy away to a "school," insisting that it's the best thing to do because Lucy has Down Syndrome. Ginny is heartbroken, but she learns to live without her daughter, believing that she's in good hands.
Two years later, Ginny learns that Willowridge, the special school, is criminally neglecting their children wards. She travels there without her husband's knowledge and finds that the situation is even worse than she thought. She and her best friend, Marsha, take Lucy for a weekend visit, but soon Ginny resolves never to let her daughter return to that asylum of horrors.
What happens next is an epic road trip with young children in tow, threatened by kidnapping charges and the wrath of Ginny's father-in-law. What kind of monster would submit their flesh and blood to those conditions? What kind of man is Ab, Ginny's husband? There are so many questions and so many decisions to make for Ginny, naive SAHM Ginny, who has been shuttled into a lifestyle she doesn't want, away from what she really needs. I loved Ginny, and Marsha too - I felt a little bit of a Thelma and Louise vibe with their road trip. And baby Lucy stole my heart from the first scene at Willowridge. All in all, I thought this was a perfectly plotted, written, and executed novel.
T. Greenwood's Rust & Stardust was heartbreaking, and this novel will break your heart too, yet fill you with equal measures of hope. I think that Greenwood is easily becoming one of my favorite authors, and I look forward to what she writes next.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an ARC.
When Ginny has her baby daughter, she's immediately taken away from her. Her husband and father-in-law spirit baby Lucy away to a "school," insisting that it's the best thing to do because Lucy has Down Syndrome. Ginny is heartbroken, but she learns to live without her daughter, believing that she's in good hands.
Two years later, Ginny learns that Willowridge, the special school, is criminally neglecting their children wards. She travels there without her husband's knowledge and finds that the situation is even worse than she thought. She and her best friend, Marsha, take Lucy for a weekend visit, but soon Ginny resolves never to let her daughter return to that asylum of horrors.
What happens next is an epic road trip with young children in tow, threatened by kidnapping charges and the wrath of Ginny's father-in-law. What kind of monster would submit their flesh and blood to those conditions? What kind of man is Ab, Ginny's husband? There are so many questions and so many decisions to make for Ginny, naive SAHM Ginny, who has been shuttled into a lifestyle she doesn't want, away from what she really needs. I loved Ginny, and Marsha too - I felt a little bit of a Thelma and Louise vibe with their road trip. And baby Lucy stole my heart from the first scene at Willowridge. All in all, I thought this was a perfectly plotted, written, and executed novel.
T. Greenwood's Rust & Stardust was heartbreaking, and this novel will break your heart too, yet fill you with equal measures of hope. I think that Greenwood is easily becoming one of my favorite authors, and I look forward to what she writes next.
Thank you to Netgalley and the publisher for an ARC.
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