02266cam a2200385 i 4500 1343197264 OCoLC 20240919140651.0 220903s2023 nyua 000 1 eng d 9780063244344 0063244349 (OCoLC)1343197264 AJM n-cn-on PS3612.E2127 P75 2023 813/.6 23/eng/20230203 Lea, Caroline, author. 18365 Prize women / Caroline Lea. First Harper Perennial edition. New York, NY : Harper Perennial, 2023. ©2023. 439 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm. text txt rdacontent. unmediated n rdamedia. volume nc rdacarrier. Toronto, 1926. Knowing that he will die without an heir, childless millionaire Charles Millar leaves behind a controversial will: the recipient of his fortune will be decided in a contest that will become a media sensation and be known as the Great Stork Derby. His money will go to the winner: the woman who bears the most children in the ten years after his death. It is a bequest that will have dramatic consequences for the lives of two women-allies and close friends. Lily di Marco is young, pregnant, and terrified of her alcoholic, violent husband. When her town is damaged by an earthquake, she flees to Toronto, arriving, by chance, on the doorstep of the glamourous Mae Thebault. While Mae presents an elegant, confident face to the world, she secretly struggles with her own tortured past and a present consumed with the never-ending burdens of motherhood. Lily enters her life at a breaking point, and soon a fierce friendship blossoms between the women. That is until the Great Depression and the contest, with its alluring prize, threatens to tear their friendship-and their lives-apart. provided by the publisher Inheritance and succession Fiction. 5897 Millionaires Fiction. 5867 Motherhood Fiction. 11843 Toronto (Ont.) Fiction. 15776 Historical fiction. lcgft. 129 Novels. lcgft. 50 .b178770279 ddc BOOK 30075 30075 ddc 0 0 ABELJ ABELJ AF 2024-09-19 19.00 0 LEA 66531 2024-09-19 2024-09-19 BOOK 1