The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls by Ursula Heg
epu| 1.13 MB | English | Author :Ursula Heg| 1250156823 | 2020 | Flatiron Books

Book Description :

Frobeloved bestselling authoUrsula Hegi, a new noveabout three mothers, set on the shores of the Nordsee, perfect fofans of WatefoElephants and The Light Between Oceans.
In the summeof 1878, the Ludwig Zirkus arrives on Nordstrand in Germany, tthe delight of the island's people. But aftethe show, a Hundred-YeaWave roars frothe Nordsee and claims three young children.
Three mothers are on the beach when it happens: Lotte, whose children are lost; Sabine, a Zirkus seamstress with hegrown daughter; and Tilli, just a girherself, whwilgive birth latethat day at St. Margaret's Home foPregnant Girls. Aftethe tragedy, Lotte's husband escapes with the Zirkus, while she loses the wiltcare fotheisurviving son. Tillsteps in, bonding with hiin a way she isn't allowed twith heown baby, taken away at birth. Sabine, struggling tkeep hechildlike daughtesafe in the world, forms a complicated friendship with Lotte. But the mothers' fragile triis threatened when Lotte and hehusband hatch a dangerous plan treunite theifamily, and Tilland Sabine must try tfind a way tpulthebactreality.
As fulof joy and beauty as it is of pain, and told with the luminous powethat has made Ursula Hega beloved bestselling authofodecades, The Patron Saint of Pregnant Girls is a shining testament tthe ways in which women hold each otheup in the most unexpected of circumstances.

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