Bibliograph

The lost mother, Mary McGarry Morris

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The lost mother, Mary McGarry Morris

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The lost mother

Oclc number

57506666

Responsibility statement

Mary McGarry Morris

Summary

Abandoned by his beautiful wife, Irene, Henry and their two young children, Thomas and Margaret, spend that summer in a tent on the edge of Black Pond. Henry, an itinerant butcher, struggles to provide for them, but often must leave them alone as he travels the county in search of work. And while Henry loves his children deeply, he is devastated by their mother's desertion. He has not told them why she left or if she'll return. When Mrs. Phyllis Farley, a prosperous neighbor, begins to woo the children as companions for her strange, housebound son, Henry must weigh an unusual proposition, the consequences of which may cost him everything

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