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Book Review of The Lost Girls

The Lost Girls
The Lost Girls
Author: Heather Young
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Hardcover
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Wow! This is a book that will stay with me. The story alternates between the summer of 1935 when devastating events changed the lives and legacies of an entire family and the winter of 1999, just before the millennium as we discover the consequences on future generations. Justine (in 1999) is discovering who she is and what she wants for her own life and for her daughters' lives. Lucy, now an old woman who is dying, finally tells the long kept secrets and the tragic story surrounding the mystery of that summer in 1935. It is an absorbing, surprising, emotional unfolding that kept me turning pages. Very well done!