The Semi-Detached Women

The Semi-Detached Women

By Alex Quaid

Genre:-LGBT+/Suspence/Romance/Historical

Pages:-386

Publisher:-Bloodhound Books

Blurb:-For a young woman in 1960s England, falling in love can be a crime-and could cost her everything...

 In 1963 Manchester, England, a pregnancy is enough to get eighteen-year-old Janine thrown out by her mother- regardless of whether the baby's father is Janine's much older married boss, who's taken advantage of her. Having spent her lonely childhood immersed in romantic books, Janine gets practical and rents out one-half of a stone cottage to wait for childbirth. She isn't alone long though, Laura, a newly divorced with an eight-year-old-boy and a difficult past of her own, moves into the other half of the house. The two women become friends, and their relationship grows. But after Janine's daughter is born, a social worker starts hovering, strongly suggesting that Janine allow the Catholic unwed mother's home to put her child up for adoption. To hold on to happiness she's found, Janine will have to stay strong against malicious forces-and accept help from some unexpected friends-in this richly emotional novel about finding out who you can truly depend on and who you really are.

First place winner, I AM Writing Romance Competition

"So beautifully written, sensitive, though-provoking and quietly affecting, The Semi-Detached Women is an outstanding and unforgettable novel."-The Book Magnet

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My Review:-A story of love and friendship in early 1960s Britain. Janie is a young woman who's married boss got her pregnant, after taken advantage of her. When Janie's mother, who's an alcoholic found out about her being pregnant she through her out. The only thing Janie could do was rent an isolated cottage with the savings she had. When Laura's marriage ends, she moves in to the adjoining cottage to Janie with her son, Luke. A friendship between Janie and Laura soon develops. Not long after the friendship becomes more, which is something new for them both. Not long after Janie has her baby daughter, that a social worker calls and wants Janie to sign her daughter over to the Catholic charity, Cedars Moral Welfare. This is a beautiful and heart warming story.