The girls we sent away : a novel
(Book)

"It's the 1960s in North Carolina, and Lorraine Delford has it all--an upstanding family, a perfect boyfriend, and an idyllic home complete with a white picket fence. Yet every time she looks through her father's telescope, she dreams of leaving it all behind to go to space. It's ambitious, but Lorraine has always been exceptional." ...Publisher.

"But this darling girl-next-door-becomes pregnant, she's forced to learn firsthand the realities that keep woman grounded. To hide their daughter's secret shame, the Delfords send Lorraine to a maternity home for wayward girls. But this is no safe haven--it's a house with dark secrets and suffocating rules. And as Lorraine begins to piece together a new vision for her life, she must decide if she has the power to fight for the future she wants or if she must submit to the rules of a society she once admired. ,Powerful and affecting, The Girls We Sent Away is a timely novel set during the intersection of the Baby Scoop Era and Space Race that explorers autonomy, belonging, and a quest for agency when the illusions of life=as=you-know-it fall away.",Provided by publisher.