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Learn morePregnant, abandoned by her lover, and banished from her Quaker home and teaching position, Lilli de Jong enters a charity for wronged women to deliver her child. She is stunned at how much her infant needs her and at how quickly their bond overpowers her heart. Mothers in her position have no sensible alternative to giving up their children, but Lilli canโt bear such an outcome. Determined to chart a path toward an independent life, Lilli braves moral condemnation and financial ruin in a quest to keep herself and her baby alive.
Confiding their story to her diary as it unfolds, Lilli takes readers from an impoverished charity to a wealthy family's home to the perilous streets of a burgeoning American city. Lilli de Jong is at once a historical saga, an intimate romance, and a lasting testament to the work of mothers. "So little is permissible for a woman," writes Lilli, "yet on her back every human climbs to adulthood."
Janet Benton is a writer whose work has appeared in the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, Glimmer Train, and elsewhere. She has co-written and edited historical documentaries for television. She holds a BA from Oberlin College and an MFA from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. For over twenty years, she has run an editorial business and a writing workshop in Philadelphia, where she lives with her husband and daughter. Lilli de Jong is her first novel.
Erin Moon is a professional AEA/CAEA/SAG-AFTRA actor and the award-winning narrator of over 325 novels. She is celebrated for her facility with accents and characterization, as well as her ability to read with humor and heart. Erin narrates everything from YA to romance (under a romance pseudonym) to holistic health nonfiction (as she happens to be a Certified Yoga Therapist). She is a fifteen-year veteran in audiobooks, having worked as a director and editor for four-and-a-half years, working on at least 400 books before she even started narrating. Now, understandably, she is also a sought-after coach, director, and panelist. After thirteen years in NYC she now lives, gardens, hikes, and records in beautiful Vancouver, Canada.