"Looking for Jane" by Heather Marshall. I knew almost immediately that this book was going to be very special. It will be my favorite book of the year and read in the second month of the year. I can't imagine anything topping it. It's an important book, too, with what is going on right now in our country. And written as the authors first book. I wonder if she can "top" herself. I believe every woman owes it to herself to read this and learn so much from it. We just can't go back and have to look for Jane.

Through that, Nancy learns about Jane. Then in 1981, she herself becomes unexpectedly pregnant. She is scared, alone, and feels she cannot tell her family.

She asks for Jane and is helped by Dr. Evelyn Taylor.

So grateful, Nancy decides to stay - she volunteers as a *counselor and organizer for Jane* for years, hiding this double life from her husband and family. She keeps her own abortion secret.

*How they connect:*

Angela's search for Nancy leads her back into the history of Jane. We discover that Nancy is actually Evelyn's biological daughter - the baby she was forced to give up at St. Agnes's in 1961. And Angela, who is looking for Nancy, is also connected through adoption and motherhood loss.

All three stories come together around themes of motherhood, choice, and what mothers will do for their children.

*Theme:*

1. It's about the true history of the Jane networks in Canada and the US before abortion was legalized in 1988, the brutal maternity homes for "fallen women," and the idea that a letter can take 50 years to find its person - but a mother's love never expires.