Leaving Lucy Pear : A Novel (Paperback)

from froxgirl

Whew, what a complicated and twisty tale from a land I love - Gloucester, MA. The novel, set in 1917, begins with an accidental pregnancy and draws in a large Irish family and it's heroic matriarch, Emma, along with a wealthy Jewish family and their errant daughter. There's also a local politicia...

from kimkimkim

The writing is achingly beautiful. It is not so much the story but about how well this story is told.

from fionaanne

A wonderfully woven tale of 1927 society. Immensely readable. Thank you to Penguin Random House forthe free advance reading copy.

from JoanDudzinski

The story takes place in 1920's Prohibition-era Massachusetts. It follows the story of a wealthy Jewish mother, Bea, who leaves her newborn in a pear orchard for an Irish family to find and raise. As the child Lucy Pear grows up, it is apparent to all that she wasn't born into her new family. The...

from bayleaf

A baby is left by a pear tree and adopted by the Murphy's, a family of Irish "pickers" who raid the pear trees on a regular basis, arriving by boat in the middle of the night. Beatrice Haven, wealthy, Jewish, and the baby's unwed mother, is distraught at the thought of giving the child to an orph...