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    The Girls with No Names: A Novel
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    The Girls with No Names: A Novel

    By Serena Burdick

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    A beautiful tale of hope, courage, and sisterhood—inspired by the real House of Mercy and the girls confined there for daring to break the rules.

    Growing up in New York City in the 1910s, Luella and Effie Tildon realize that even as wealthy young women, their freedoms come with limits. But when the sisters discover a shocking secret about their father, Luella, the brazen elder sister, becomes emboldened to do as she pleases. Her rebellion comes with consequences, and one morning Luella is mysteriously gone.

    Effie suspects her father has sent Luella to the House of Mercy and hatches a plan to get herself committed to save her sister. But she made a miscalculation, and with no one to believe her story, Effie’s own escape seems impossible—unless she can trust an enigmatic girl named Mable. As their fates entwine, Mable and Effie must rely on their tenuous friendship to survive.

    Home for Unwanted Girls meets The Dollhouse in this atmospheric, heartwarming story that explores not only the historical House of Mercy, but the lives—and secrets—of the girls who stayed there.


    “Burdick has spun a cautionary tale of struggle and survival, love and family — and above all, the strength of the heart, no matter how broken.” — New York Times Book Review

    “Burdick reveals the perils of being a woman in 1913 and exposes the truths of their varying social circles.” — Chicago Tribune
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarlequin
    Release dateJan 7, 2020
    ISBN9781488050992
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    The Girls with No Names: A Novel
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    Serena Burdick

    Serena Burdick graduated from The American Academy of Dramatic Arts in California before moving to New York City to pursue a degree in English Literature at Brooklyn College. Author of Girl In The Afternoon, she lives in Western Massachusetts with her husband and two sons.

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    • 5/5
      This story was wonderful, the lives of those “poor” girls trapped in those
      Institutions were terrible,under the guise that they were being helped and reformed. Wonderful story! T o know that this was actually true is amazing!
    • 4/5
      I Fluently and confidently and enjoying the book. You are such a good Author! ... If you have some great stories like this one, you can publish it on Novel Star, just submit your story to hardy@novelstar.top or joye@novelstar.top
    • 5/5
      Couldn’t put it down! Beautifully written with strong and believable characters. Another part of history that shouldn’t be swept under the rug.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      The characters in the book were flawed and imperfect but resilient and strong in ways that made them so real I just couldn’t put it down. The writer captured the difficult era of extremes and the soul of the people in a beautiful moving story. I want to read all this authors books after reading this one.
    • 5/5
      Probably one of my favorites in historical fiction. What a good story!

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      Well written; fiction that’s based on real life situations from history.

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    • 5/5
      The Girls With No Names by Serena Burdick
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      This book has a setting in real history regarding the real Houses of Mercy where wayward women were sent to do forced labor in sanitariums
      It follows the lives of two sisters in New York City in the 1910. When the older sister disappears and the parents won’t tell the younger sister where she is. The younger sister fears she has been sent to the House of Mercy by their father for rebelling. So she finds a way to get herself incarcerated there to save her. Only to find her sister is not there and a harsh existence her lot until she can find a way out. This is made even more difficult because the younger sister has a heart condition.
      I often call books a journey that I take as I read them and this one definitely takes you on an experience not only through the life of the little sister but her older sister,her mother, and her father as well as one girl she meets in the mercy house.
      This story at times pulls at all your emotions and the characters are portrayed in a complicated way that makes them memorable.
      This is not a Disneylike ending but it is a book that will stay with you after you are done. Definitely recommend

      1 person found this helpful

    • 5/5
      This was an exclusive written story of what life was like for young women at the beginning of the 20th century. It gives a realistic description of what life was like inside these homes for girls who were destitute homeless or without parents .It shows how hard their lives were in working constantly without much food or adequate clothing and how imprisoned they were. vf

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    • 5/5
      This is one of those books that gets under your skin and alters your perspective. I knew life was tough in 1913 New York, particularly if you weren't wealthy. But this book laid bare the stark reality of what life was like for thousands of women who had no one to speak up for them. The ending is satisfying, without being trite or saccharine, but it left me with a new understanding of what drove the passion of so many activists in the 20th century. This is more than a story about injustice, however, and certainly doesn't fall into the politically correct trap of condemning privilege. Instead it paints a compelling picture of courage, strength, and commonality of human experience, despite era, economic condition, and character deficiencies. I will be thinking about this one for a long time.

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