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Starred Review on September 1, 2013 | Fiction
Anna is the daughter of anthropologist and writer Jessica Speight and is her "pure gold baby"—a happy and loving child with special needs and capabilities. As a single mother in 1960s London, Jess navigates career, relationships, and the National Health Service with compromise, determination, and the help of a close-knit circle of friends, including the narrator, an attorney and mother. Readers follow Anna and Jess...Log In or Sign Up to Read More