Necessary lies
By: Diane Chamberlain
Edition: Large print edition.
Series: Thorndike Press large print core; Thorndike Press large print core series
Publisher: Thorndike Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Waterville, Maine
Language: eng
Number of pages: 597
ISBN-13: 9781410462152
Subjects: Eugenics; Fiction; Government policy; Social workers; Tenant farmers; Involuntary sterilization; Tobacco farms; Teenage girls; Friendship; Large type books
Description: North Carolina, 1960. After losing her parents, fifteen-year-old Ivy Hart is left to care for her grandmother, older sister and young nephew as tenants on a small tobacco farm. As she struggles with her grandmother's aging, her sister's mental illness, and her own epilepsy, Ivy realizes they might need more than she can give ... When Jane Forrester takes a position as Grace County's newest social worker, she doesn't realize just how much her help is needed. She becomes emotionally invested in her clients' lives, causing tension with her boss and her new husband. But as Jane is drawn in by the Hart women, she begins to discover secrets much darker than she could have guessed.