What She Left Behind

from Kristelh

Well, really I did not like this book much though the ending was good but maybe too good with all pieces tying up nicely. Others have remarked that the story is a little improbable and I would agree. I know that women were put into state hospitals because they had no rights and that there was man...

from tinkerbellkk

I thought this book had a great concept, loved the characters and how they were explored in parallel but overlapping lives. I was cheering for the main characters - one a woman who was locked away in an insane asylum and one a young woman searching for some kind of family life. The story was good...

from Coltfan18

I liked this book about Izzy who in current time is helping her foster parents go through the papers and records of a closed asylum. They find old trunks of patients belongings. Inside one of these trunks, Izzy finds letters and journals of eighteen year-old Clara. She takes these home to read an...

from haymaai

Having read numerous favorable reviews about Ellen Marie Wiseman's 'What She Left Behind,' I was so anxious to read it, and enjoyed this wonderful gift from my dear book club friend. The story will pull at your heartstrings though, as the author moves through the tragic lives of Clara and Bruno, ...

from Olivermagnus

This novel is told in dual perspective, with Clara, a patient at Willard State in the 1930s, and Izzy, a modern day foster child whose mother brutally murdered her father. In 1929 we meet Clara Cartwright, an eighteen-year-old from a wealthy family who falls in love with an Italian immigrant. Lik...