num_pages: 400
description: A debut about three women whose lives are bound together by a long-lost letter a mothers love and a secret network of women fighting for the right to chooseinspired 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 fallen women where she was forced to give up her baby for adoptiona trauma she has never recovered from. Despite harrowing police raids and 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 Jane and finds a place of her own alongside Dr. Taylor within the networks ranks but she can never escape the lies that haunt her.
language: English
title: Looking for Jane
publisher: Atria Books