02377cam a2200397 i 45000010011000000030006000110050017000170080041000340200018000750200015000930350022001080400008001300430012001380500027001500820028001771000035002052450033002402500036002732640045003092640012003543000041003663360027004073370029004343380028004635201133004916500047016246500033016716500032017046510036017366550037017726550024018099070016018339420014018499990017018639520099018801343197264OCoLC20240919140651.0220903s2023    nyua          000 1 eng d  a9780063244344  a0063244349  a(OCoLC)1343197264  cAJM  an-cn-on 4aPS3612.E2127bP75 202304a813/.6223/eng/202302031 aLea, Caroline,eauthor.91836510aPrize women /cCaroline Lea.  aFirst Harper Perennial edition. 1aNew York, NY :bHarper Perennial,c2023. 4c©2023.  a439 pages :billustrations ;c21 cm.  atextbtxt2rdacontent.  aunmediatedbn2rdamedia.  avolumebnc2rdacarrier.  aToronto, 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.bprovided by the publisher 0aInheritance and successionvFiction.95897 0aMillionairesvFiction.95867 0aMotherhoodvFiction.911843 0aToronto (Ont.)vFiction.915776 7aHistorical fiction.2lcgft.9129 7aNovels.2lcgft.950  a.b178770279  2ddccBOOK  c30075d30075  2ddc4070aABELJbABELJcAFd2024-09-19g19.00l0oLEAp66531r2024-09-19w2024-09-19yBOOK11