What She Left Behind

📚 What She Left Behind by Ellen Marie Wiseman

While helping her foster parents catalog belongings at an abandoned psychiatric hospital, seventeen-year-old Izzy Stone discovers letters and a journal belonging to Clara Cartwright. In the 1920s, Clara’s wealthy father had her institutionalized after she refused an arranged marriage and fell in love with a man he disapproved of.

As Izzy pieces together Clara’s story, she begins questioning the painful assumptions she’s made about her own mother and the tragedy that separated them.

Told across two timelines, What She Left Behind is a haunting historical novel about family secrets, injustice, and women struggling to reclaim their lives. A moving pick for readers who enjoy emotional mysteries and stories of resilience. (penguinrandomhouse.com)