NO NAMES TO BE GIVEN by Julia Brewer Daily Audiobook
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Book Details:
Book Title: No Names to Be Given
Category: Adult Fiction (18 +)
Genre: Vintage Women's Fiction
Publisher: Admission Press Inc
Release date: 08/2021
Format available for review: audiobook ( MP3 audio )
Tour Dates: Sep 20 to Oct 8
Content Rating: PG + M. No bad language, but mature subjects like suicide and a rape scene. These are both mild and not explicit. Fade to black kind of scenes.
Book Title: No Names to Be Given
Category: Adult Fiction (18 +)
Genre: Vintage Women's Fiction
Publisher: Admission Press Inc
Release date: 08/2021
Format available for review: audiobook ( MP3 audio )
Tour Dates: Sep 20 to Oct 8
Content Rating: PG + M. No bad language, but mature subjects like suicide and a rape scene. These are both mild and not explicit. Fade to black kind of scenes.
"A gorgeous, thrilling, and important novel! These strong women will capture your heart.” Stacey Swann, author of Olympus, Texas.
“An insightful and sympathetic view offered into the lives of those who were adopted and those who adopted them.” Pam Johnson, author of Justice for Ella.
“A novel worthy of a Lifetime movie adaptation.” Jess Hagemann, author of Headcheese.
“Readers can expect deep knowledge of the world the characters inhabit.” Sara Kocek, author of Promise Me Something.
“I found myself thinking about Becca, Sandy, and Faith frequently as I went about my day—I was always excited to sit down and find out what happened next.” Sarah Welch, author of Austin Brown Dogs: The Shelter Dogs Who Rescue Us.
“An insightful and sympathetic view offered into the lives of those who were adopted and those who adopted them.” Pam Johnson, author of Justice for Ella.
“A novel worthy of a Lifetime movie adaptation.” Jess Hagemann, author of Headcheese.
“Readers can expect deep knowledge of the world the characters inhabit.” Sara Kocek, author of Promise Me Something.
“I found myself thinking about Becca, Sandy, and Faith frequently as I went about my day—I was always excited to sit down and find out what happened next.” Sarah Welch, author of Austin Brown Dogs: The Shelter Dogs Who Rescue Us.
Book Description:
Today’s young women will not understand how our families made us feel shame so intensely; we surrendered our first-born children to strangers. Faith Reynolds, No Names to Be Given
The
widely anticipated debut novel by Julia Brewer Daily is a glimpse into the lives of women forced by society to gift their newborns to strangers. Although this novel is a fictional account, it mirrors many of the adoption stories of its era.
When three young unwed women meet at a maternity home hospital in New Orleans in 1965, they are expected to relinquish their babies and return home as if nothing transpired. Twenty-five years later, they are brought back together by blackmail and their secrets threatened with exposure—all the way to the White House.
Told from the three women’s perspectives in alternating chapters, we are mesmerized by the societal pressures on women in the 1960s who found themselves pregnant without marriage.
How that inconceivable act changed them forever is the story of No Names To Be Given, a novel with southern voices, love exploited, heartbreak and blackmail.
The narrator for this book deserves a full five stars if not more. Taking on different personalities, ages, genders, etc as well as singing when called for. She does an amazing job.
The story itself begins a bit slowly, you get a taste at the beginning of the despair and sadness to come. Some readers may give up before reaching the heart and meat of the book. I encourage you to continue reading or listening. You will be glad you did.
Political, Spiritual, and moral or ethical intrigue and suspense permeate these pages.
It is a fictional story of the times but told with practical realism.
Three young women whose families need to keep their unwed pregnancies secret end up in a home for unmarried mothers. Besides being roommates, they end up having their babies on the same day.
Other than that, they appear to have nothing in common.
As was normal at the time, they were not given any information on the children they bore, never saw them, and were expected to never look back.
These three are very strong women with their own ideas. They promise to keep in touch and never forget the date and event they shared.
Years pass and we are shown glimpses into the lives of the children.
We also are shown that the mothers never did forget, but had to "carry on."
All three women come to experience success in their lives.
If their pregnancies and given up children were to become public knowledge, there would be dire consequences. As you can guess, tragedies arise and secrets become known to additional people.
Who will rise above and who will be hurt when those secrets are revealed?
Whether you want to or not, you will care about these women and their unknown children.
You will find yourself imagining outcomes and want to keep reading to discover if you are correct.
Overall a dark and sad novel, yet underlined with hope and compassion.
Meet the Author:
Julia Brewer Daily is a Texan with a southern accent. She holds a B.S. in English and a M.S. degree in Education from the University of Southern Mississippi.
She has been a Communications Adjunct Professor at Belhaven University, Jackson, Mississippi, and Public Relations Director of the Mississippi Department of Education and Millsaps College, a liberal arts college in Jackson, MS.
She was the founding director of the Greater Belhaven Market, a producers’ only market in a historic neighborhood in Jackson, and even shadowed Martha Stewart.
As the Executive Director of the Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi (300 artisans from 19 states) which operates the Mississippi Craft Center, she wrote their stories to introduce them to the public.
Daily is an adopted child from a maternity home hospital in New Orleans. She searched and found her birth mother and through a DNA test, her birth father’s family, as well. A lifelong southerner, she now resides on a ranch in Fredericksburg, Texas, with her husband Emmerson and Labrador Retrievers, Memphis Belle and Texas Star.
connect with the author: website ~ facebook ~ goodreads
She has been a Communications Adjunct Professor at Belhaven University, Jackson, Mississippi, and Public Relations Director of the Mississippi Department of Education and Millsaps College, a liberal arts college in Jackson, MS.
She was the founding director of the Greater Belhaven Market, a producers’ only market in a historic neighborhood in Jackson, and even shadowed Martha Stewart.
As the Executive Director of the Craftsmen’s Guild of Mississippi (300 artisans from 19 states) which operates the Mississippi Craft Center, she wrote their stories to introduce them to the public.
Daily is an adopted child from a maternity home hospital in New Orleans. She searched and found her birth mother and through a DNA test, her birth father’s family, as well. A lifelong southerner, she now resides on a ranch in Fredericksburg, Texas, with her husband Emmerson and Labrador Retrievers, Memphis Belle and Texas Star.
connect with the author: website ~ facebook ~ goodreads
Tour Schedule:
Sep 20 – Cover Lover Book Review – audiobook review / author interview / giveaway
Sep 21 – Rockin' Book Reviews – audiobook review / guest post / giveaway
Sep 21 –Gina Rae Mitchell - book spotlight / author interview / giveaway
Sep 22– Bound 4 Escape – audiobook review / giveaway
Sep 23 – Book Corner New and Reviews – audiobook review / giveaway
Sep 24– I'm Into Books – book spotlight / giveaway
Sep 27 - @booking.with.janelle – audiobook review / author interview
Sep 28 – Locks, Hooks and Books – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Sep 29 –@fantasybookcraz_mum - audiobook review
Sep 30 – Pick a Good Book - book spotlight / author interview / giveaway
Oct 4 – Jazzy Book Reviews – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Oct 5 – Sadie's Spotlight – book spotlight / author interview / giveaway
Oct 6 - Literary Flits – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 7 - I'd Rather Be At The Beach - audiobook review / giveaway
Oct 8 - Laura's Interest - audiobook review / giveaway
Enter the Giveaway: Sep 20 – Cover Lover Book Review – audiobook review / author interview / giveaway
Sep 21 – Rockin' Book Reviews – audiobook review / guest post / giveaway
Sep 21 –Gina Rae Mitchell - book spotlight / author interview / giveaway
Sep 22– Bound 4 Escape – audiobook review / giveaway
Sep 23 – Book Corner New and Reviews – audiobook review / giveaway
Sep 24– I'm Into Books – book spotlight / giveaway
Sep 27 - @booking.with.janelle – audiobook review / author interview
Sep 28 – Locks, Hooks and Books – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Sep 29 –@fantasybookcraz_mum - audiobook review
Sep 30 – Pick a Good Book - book spotlight / author interview / giveaway
Oct 4 – Jazzy Book Reviews – book spotlight / guest post / giveaway
Oct 5 – Sadie's Spotlight – book spotlight / author interview / giveaway
Oct 6 - Literary Flits – book spotlight / giveaway
Oct 7 - I'd Rather Be At The Beach - audiobook review / giveaway
Oct 8 - Laura's Interest - audiobook review / giveaway
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