This âclever and satisfyingâ (Associated Press) #1 international bestseller for fans of Kristin Hannah and Jennifer Chiaverini follows three women who are bound together by a long-lost letter, a motherâs love, and a secret network of women fighting for the right to chooseâinspired by true stories.
2017: When Angela Creighton discovers a mysterious letter containing a life-shattering confession, she is determined to find the intended recipient. Her search takes her back to the 1970s when a group of daring women operated an illegal underground abortion network in Toronto known only by its whispered code name: Jane.
1971: As a teenager, Dr. Evelyn Taylor was sent to a home for âfallenâ women where she was forced to give up her baby for adoptionâa trauma she has never recovered from. Despite the constant threat of arrest, she joins the Jane Network as an abortion provider, determined to give other women the choice she never had.
1980: After discovering a shocking secret about her family, twenty-year-old Nancy Mitchell begins to question everything she has ever known. When she unexpectedly becomes pregnant, she feels like she has no one to turn to for help. Grappling with her decision, she locates âJaneâ and finds a place of her own alongside Dr. Taylor within the networkâs ranks, but she can never escape the lies that haunt her.
Looking for Jane is âa searing, important, beautifully written novel about the choices we all make and where they lead usâas well as a wise and timely reminder of the difficult road women had to walk not so long agoâ (Kristin Harmel, New York Times bestselling author).
This âclever and satisfyingâ (Associated Press) #1 international bestseller for fans of Kristin Hannah and Jennifer Chiaverini follows three women who are bound together by a long-lost letter, a motherâs love, and a secret network of women fighting for the right to chooseâinspired by true stories.
2017: When Angela Creighton discovers a mysterious letter containing a life-shattering confession, she is determined to find the intended recipient. Her search takes her back to the 1970s when a group of daring women operated an illegal underground abortion network in Toronto known only by its whispered code name: Jane.
1971: As a teenager, Dr. Evelyn Taylor was sent to a home for âfallenâ women where she was forced to give up her baby for adoptionâa trauma she has never recovered from. Despite the constant threat of arrest, she joins the Jane Network as an abortion provider, determined to give other women the choice she never had.
1980: After discovering a shocking secret about her family, twenty-year-old Nancy Mitchell begins to question everything she has ever known. When she unexpectedly becomes pregnant, she feels like she has no one to turn to for help. Grappling with her decision, she locates âJaneâ and finds a place of her own alongside Dr. Taylor within the networkâs ranks, but she can never escape the lies that haunt her.
Looking for Jane is âa searing, important, beautifully written novel about the choices we all make and where they lead usâas well as a wise and timely reminder of the difficult road women had to walk not so long agoâ (Kristin Harmel, New York Times bestselling author).