The Whipping Club

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The Whipping Club
312 pages; T.S. Poetry
The Whipping Club takes us to mid-20th-century Ireland, where a good Catholic girl decides to give up her half-Jewish child for adoption. Secrecy, lifelong guilt, and remorse aren't even half of what she and the child will suffer in Deborah Henry's novel.