Taylor within the network’s ranks, but she can never escape the lies that haunt her. Grappling with her decision, she locates “Jane” and finds a place of her own alongside Dr. When she unexpectedly becomes pregnant, she feels like she has no one to turn to for help. 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.ġ980: After discovering a shocking secret about her family, twenty-year-old Nancy Mitchell begins to question everything she has ever known. Evelyn Taylor was sent to a home for “fallen” women where she was forced to give up her baby for adoption-a trauma she has never recovered from.

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.ġ971: As a teenager, Dr. This “powerful debut” ( Hello! Canada) for fans of Kristin Hannah and Jennifer Chiaverini about three women whose lives are bound together by a long-lost letter, a mother’s love, and a secret network of women fighting for the right to choose-inspired by true stories.Ģ017: When Angela Creighton discovers a mysterious letter containing a life-shattering confession, she is determined to find the intended recipient. Instead, comforting pops of color adorn the story: a flourishing summer lawn blooming with roses, the silky skin of a newborn, warm tea with family in the living room.“Clever and satisfying.has the potential to remain pertinent for generations. This continual, underlying warmth keeps the chilling subject matter and frigid Canadian weather from dampening the novel as a whole. Rare moments of fury or spite are tempered with a genuine look at the love and fear behind them, rendering characters sympathetic - people just trying to make the best choices they can under the circumstances. Marshall approaches these incredibly personal and emotionally difficult topics with empathy.

Replete with oddly satisfying descriptions - “a pale, doughy man with a voice like cold oatmeal” - and good-natured cliffhangers, “Looking for Jane” has the momentum of a high-speed chase as Angela races back to uncover the past and Nancy and Evelyn’s timelines converge and then speed toward the future. And in 1960, Evelyn finds herself at one of Canada’s homes for unwed mothers, where she’s given no choice but to give her baby up for adoption.

Angela is undergoing another stressful round of in vitro fertilization attempts for a desperately wanted pregnancy in 2017. Nancy is horrified after she begrudgingly accompanies a friend to an illegal abortion in 1979, when the two are in their teens.

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