Binding: Paperback
Description: " A joy to read." New York Times Book Review From beloved bestselling author Ursula Hegi a new novel about three mothers set on the shores of the Nordsee perfect for fans of Water for Elephants and The Light Between Oceans. In the summer of 1878, the Ludwig Zirkus arrives on Nordstrand in Germany to the delight of the island's people. But after the show a Hundred - Year Wave roars from the Nordsee and claims three young children. Three mothers are on the beach when it happens: Lotte whose children are lost; Sabine a Zirkus seamstress with her grown daughter; and Tilli just a girl herself who will give birth later that day at St. Margaret's Home for Pregnant Girls. After the tragedy Lotte's husband escapes with the Zirkus while she loses the will to care for their surviving son. Tilli steps in bonding with him in a way she isn t allowed to with her own baby taken away at birth. Sabine struggling to keep her childlike daughter safe in the world forms a complicated friendship with Lotte. But the mothers fragile trio is threatened when Lotte and her husband hatch a dangerous plan to reunite their family and Tilli and Sabine must try to find a way to pull them back to reality. As full of joy and beauty as it is of pain and told with the luminous power that has made Ursula Hegi a beloved bestselling author for decades The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls is a shining testament to the ways in which women hold each other up in the most unexpected of circumstances.
Title: The Patron Saint Of Pregnant Girls A Novel
Author(s): Hegi Ursula
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Barcode: 9781250156839
Pages: 288 Pages
Publication Date: 6/8/2021
Category: Historical Fiction