The House of Closed Doors
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4.1 • 304 Ratings
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- $7.99
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- $7.99
Publisher Description
Heedless. Stubborn. Disgraced.
Small town Illinois, 1870: "My stepfather was not particularly fond of me to begin with, and now that he'd found out about the baby, he was foaming at the mouth."
Desperate to avoid marriage, Nell Lillington refuses to divulge the name of her child's father and accepts her stepfather's decision that the baby be born at a Poor Farm and discreetly adopted.
Until an unused padded cell is opened and two small bodies fall out.
Nell is the only resident of the Poor Farm who is convinced the unwed mother and her baby were murdered, and rethinks her decision to abandon her own child to fate. But even if she manages to escape the Poor Farm with her baby she may have no safe place to run to.
Customer Reviews
Historic
Book is well written and historic background is close to actual. This young, spirited woman, who, as the time period would admit, did not learn the where with all of what happens to a woman who gets into a situation re men/women. Nell is a stubborn young person who acts sometimes without thinking until she is compromised and must leave her home for a ‘Poor House’ which is below her station. Nell learns to become more of an adult when her child is born and also learns to stand up for herself with the help of a few wonderful people. I liked the book and will get the next in the series to see how well Nell does with her adventures of life.
Behind Closed Doors
I enjoyed this novel and find it astonishing that woman had to succumb to the male in the household.
The house of closed doors
Excellent reading…great characters who captured one imagination, great story of a young woman’s struggles with life in a restricted environment! Now onto the next adventure! Thank you for the writing! Warms the heart!,