When she becomes pregnant at fifteen, her parents force her to give baby Elodie up for adoption and get her life 'back on track'.Įlodie is raised in Quebec's impoverished orphanage system. But Maggie's heart is captured by Gabriel Phénix. Maggie's English-speaking father has ambitions for his daughter that don't include marriage to the poor French boy on the next farm over. In 1950s Quebec, French and English tolerate each other with precarious civilityâ?much like Maggie Hughes' parents. Philomena meets The Orphan Train in this suspenseful, provocative novel filled with love, secrets, and deceitâ?the story of a young unwed mother who is forcibly separated from her daughter at birth and the lengths to which they go to find each other.
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