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Necessary Lies

Necessary Lies

Author(s): Diane Chamberlain

Location(s): North Carolina

Genre(s): Fiction

Era(s): 1960s

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If you’re a fan of Jodie Picoult, you’ll love the latest novel by Diane Chamberlain, bestselling author of The Midwife’s Confession . . . North Carolina, 1960. Newlywed Jane Forrester, fresh out of university, is seeking what most other women have shunned: a career. But life as a social worker is far from what she expected. Out amongst the rural Tobacco fields of Grace County, Jane encounters a world of extreme poverty that is far removed from the middle-class life she has grown up with. But worse is still to come. Working with the Hart family and their fifteen-year-old daughter Ivy, it’s not long before Jane uncovers a shocking secret, and is thrust into a moral dilemma that puts her career on the line, threatens to dissolve her marriage, and ultimately, determines the fate of Ivy and her family forever. Soon Jane is forced to take drastic action, and before long, there is no turning back.

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This is the story of poverty and the difference classes and races. Eugenics continued into the 1970s which is shocking. Terrific read.

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Tale set in North Carolina, 1960

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The book starts in present day, well 2011, and gives a brief cover on an event and then takes us back to 1960, North Carolina in America. Jane Forrester is a new wife, new graduate and looking to have...

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