The Home for Unwanted Girls is worth your time because of determination. It is a novel that depicts how love can create anything. Love creates pain, suffering, longing, desire, and beauty. This novel meshes the endless possibilities of what love can do. This is not a novel about unrequited love but instead a tale that drowns you in potential of what love and the future can hold.

I did not like this book and yet I still recommend you read it. I found it lacklustre but there are captivating elements to it that make it worth your while especially as I can see the viewpoint of those that do like it. This is a good novel it is just was not for me. The Home for Unwanted Girls is a story that makes you slow down and realise the power of choice and what we do with it. A story that is beautifully written and worth your time.

The plot is told from Maggie's point of view with snippets of Elodie's thrown in. As a reader you are drawn into Maggie's middle-class life, the classism within Canada, hard-work, and an illegitimate baby. Maggie's "decision" to give away her child propels the story.

With giving nothing away, the plot revolves around that decision and Elodie's time in the home for unwanted girls. This novel contains a plot worth reading.

I loved Maggie. Maggie is a woman of the times who still holds her own. She is fiercely determined but also connected deeply to her family. She is a character who combines values from the older generation with the newer and represents a kind of transitional element during this time period. One from where a single mother was taboo to one where it become (or was becoming) accepted.

Maggie's lover, Gabriel, is a wonderful addition along with all the supporting characters in which, although she had her own voice, I include Elodie. Reading the story from her perspective is when you will feel the most heartbreak in The Home for Unwanted Girls and is where you will want to pluck the characters from the story and protect them.

It all ties together at the ending. It is emotions galore at the ending creating a powerful finish worth reading about. Like the characters you will feel a plethora of emotions and is why The Home for Unwanted Girls should be your next read. If you are searching for a touch of romance, family, and a whole ton of determination - this is the novel for you.

Why did I think this was a series? And with the ending, I badly wished it was. Why? Because I crave expansion on Elodie's and Maggie's relationship; the fusion of a family they both desperately searched for throughout the whole novel. I wish there had been more of Elodie's journey and why the 1950s in Quebec felt like the 1850s. Everything felt backwards and I felt no progression in the storyline causing me to become bored which was quite frustrating as this novel contains all the elements I admire and crave in a story.

I am not sure how much I even enjoyed this novel and that is going against popular opinion. It has nothing to do with the novel, it is written so well and tells a beautiful story of community and hardship but yet, it was not my cup of tea and that's okay. This is a good novel that I recommend others read but was not the one for me.