Category: Fiction, Novels & Story Books
Best friends Lily di Marco and Mae Thebault were once
inseparable. They lived under the same roof and cared for each other's
children. But with mouths to feeds and demanding husbands to keep happy,
both women are forced into terrible decisions as the Great Depression
tightens its grip.
When lawyer Charles Vance Miller's will
promises a handsome sum of money to the woman who can produce the most
babies in the next ten years, it is initially dismissed as a vanity
project. But as the Great Depression worsens, and times get increasingly
tough across the world, for the most desperate in society this contest
known as The Great Stork Derby suddenly seems like a way out.
Ten
years later, Lily and Mae couldn't be further apart. And as The Great
Stork Derby continues to make headlines, for all the wrong reasons, both
these women must face up to their part in it, and the consequences...