This βclever and satisfyingβ (Associated Press) #1 international bestseller for fans of Kristin Hannah and Jennifer Chiaverini follows three women who are bound together by a long-lost letter, a motherβs love, and a secret network of women fighting for the right to chooseβinspired 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:Β Jane.
1971: As a teenager, Dr. Evelyn Taylor was sent to a home for βfallenβ women where she was forced to give up her baby for adoptionβa trauma she has never recovered from. Despite 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 βJaneβ and finds a place of her own alongside Dr. Taylor within the networkβs ranks, but she can never escape the lies that haunt her.