One night in 1917, Beatrice Haven sneaks out of her uncle’s house in Cape Ann, Massachusetts, leaves her newborn baby at the foot of a pear tree, and watches as another woman claims the infant as her own. The unwed daughter of wealthy Jewish industrialists and a gifted pianist bound for Radcliffe, Bea plans to leave her shameful secret behind and make a fresh start. Ten years later, Prohibition is in full swing, post-WWI America is in the grips of rampant xenophobia, and Bea’s hopes for her future remain unfulfilled. She returns to her uncle’s house, seeking a refuge from her unhappiness. But she discovers far more when the rum-running manager of the local quarry inadvertently reunites her with Emma Murphy, the headstrong Irish Catholic woman who has been raising Bea’s abandoned child — now a bright, bold, cross-dressing girl named Lucy Pear, with secrets of her own.
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- EditoreCenter Point Pub
- Data di pubblicazione2016
- ISBN 10 1683240944
- ISBN 13 9781683240945
- RilegaturaRilegatura all'americana
- Numero di pagine447
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