Shreve, Anita.

Fortune's rocks : a novel / Anita Shreve. - This edition published in 2001 - London : Abacus, 2000 - 453 pages : 20 cm

In 1890s Boston, a 15-year-old upper-class girl is banished to a convent following an affair with a married doctor which left her pregnant. The girl is forced to surrender the child for adoption, but she subsequently goes to court to recuperate it, and eventually marries the doctor. A study in the mores and manners of the day.

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Historical Fiction --Adultery--New Hampshire

PS3569.H7385 F67

813.54