"This story will have readers not only rooting for Ginny and Lucy, but
thinking about them long after the last page is turned." -- Lisa
Wingate, New York Times Bestselling Author of Before We Were Yours
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T. Greenwood's Keeping Lucy is a heartbreaking and uplifting story,
inspired by incredible true events, of how far one mother must go to
protect her daughter.
Dover, Massachusetts, 1969. Ginny Richardson's heart was torn open
when her baby girl, Lucy, born with Down Syndrome, was taken from her.
Under pressure from his powerful family, her husband, Ab, sent Lucy away
to Willowridge, a special school for the "feeble-minded." Ab tried to
convince Ginny it was for the best. That they should grieve for their
daughter as though she were dead. That they should try to move on.
But two years later, when Ginny's best friend, Marsha, shows her a
series of articles exposing Willowridge as a hell-on-earth--its squalid
hallways filled with neglected children--she knows she can't leave her
daughter there. With Ginny's six-year-old son in tow, Ginny and Marsha
drive to the school to see Lucy for themselves. What they find sets
their course on a heart-racing journey across state lines--turning Ginny
into a fugitive.
For the first time, Ginny must test her own strength and face the world
head-on as she fights Ab and his domineering father for the right to
keep Lucy. Racing from Massachusetts to the beaches of Atlantic City,
through the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia to a roadside mermaid show
in Florida, Keeping Lucy is a searing portrait of just how far a
mother's love can take her.
"A heartrending yet inspiring novel that kept me reading late into the
night." --Kristina McMorris, New York Times bestselling author of
Sold on a Monday and The Edge of Lost
