Friday Book Blessing

 The Friday 56 is hosted by Freda’s Voice every Friday. 
The Rules:

*Grab a book, any book.
*Turn to page 56 or 56% in your eReader (If you have to improvise, that's ok.)
*Find any sentence, (or few, just don't spoil it)\
*Don’t forget to add your post URL (not your blog url) at Freda’s Voice.

BookBeginnings is a weekly meme, hosted by Rose City Reader. To participate, share the opening lines and your thoughts about a book you're reading, or about to.

 

Beginning: 

1975: Her whole body shook as the adrenalin coursed through it. Sweat glistened on each unclothed patch of skin and relief from the pain washed over her like a wave. She knew instinctively that the physical ache would return between her legs and in the depths of her stomach but for now, in this instant, she was distracted by the little pink bundle and its continuous pitched wail. 

“Let me hold my baby. Please.I think it’s hungry.”

P56: 

She felt her phone buzzing in her pocket and cursed herself for forgetting to turn the bloody thing off. She withdrew it discreetly and saw Bridget’s number flashing. In their line of work, there weren't many females and Laura has been grateful to meet another young woman when she joined the NCBI. In her experience, there was a type of professional woman who like to pull the ladder up once she’d climbed it. Laura thought women were better uniting to support one another, and she was delighted to find Bridget shared that mentality. They became fast friends.

My thoughts:

I’ve just started this - With our blessing, by Jo Spain.

The blurb on the back reads: 

1975: A baby, minutes old, is forcibly taken from its devastated mother.

2010: The body of an elderly woman is found in a Dublin public park in the depths of winter.

Apparently (author’s note in the beginning of the book), although fictional, these events are based on actual occurrences in Magdalene Laundries - a house for “fallen women”. 

I didn't even know these places existed, the last one closing as recently as 1996. I’m looking forward to finishing this weekend. It is quite long - 531 pages, but is moving quite quickly, and I am enjoying it so far. 

What do you think? Leave a comment, and I will visit you back.