Looking for Jane

Contents Cover Title Page Dedication 2010 Part I Chapter 1: Angela Chapter 2: Evelyn Chapter 3: Nancy Chapter 4: Evelyn Chapter 5: Angela Chapter 6: Evelyn Chapter 7: Nancy Chapter 8: Evelyn Chapter 9: Nancy Chapter 10: Evelyn Chapter 11: Angela Part II Chapter 12: Evelyn Chapter 13: Angela Chapter 14: Evelyn Chapter 15: Nancy Chapter 16: Evelyn Chapter 17: Nancy Chapter 18: Angela Part III Chapter 19: Nancy Chapter 20: Evelyn Chapter 21: Nancy Chapter 22: Angela Chapter 23: Nancy Part IV Chapter 24: Evelyn Chapter 25: Nancy Chapter 26: Angela Chapter 27: Nancy Chapter 28: Angela Chapter 29: Maggie Chapter 30: Evelyn Chapter 31: Evelyn Author’s Note Acknowledgments Reading Group Guide About the Author Copyright Guide Cover Start of Content Title Page Dedication Author’s Note Acknowledgments Copyright I II III V VI VII VIII 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 53 54 55 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 64 65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 74 75 76 77 78 79 80 81 82 83 84 85 86 87 88 89 90 91 92 93 94 95 96 97 98 99 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 136 137 138 139 140 141 142 143 144 145 146 147 148 149 150 151 152 153 154 155 156 157 158 159 160 161 162 163 164 165 166 167 168 169 170 171 172 173 174 175 176 177 178 179 180 181 182 183 184 185 186 187 188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212 213 214 215 216 217 218 219 220 221 222 223 224 225 226 227 228 229 230 231 232 233 234 235 236 237 238 239 240 241 242 243 244 245 246 247 248 249 250 251 252 253 254 255 256 257 258 259 260 261 262 263 264 265 266 267 268 269 270 271 272 273 274 275 276 277 278 279 280 281 282 283 284 285 286 287 288 289 290 291 292 293 294 295 296 297 298 299 300 301 302 303 304 305 306 307 308 309 310 311 312 313 314 315 316 317 318 319 320 321 322 323 324 325 326 327 328 329 330 331 332 333 334 335 336 
 
 “A masterful debut about motherhood and choice.” —Kristin Harmel
 A Novel
 Looking for Jane
 Heather Marshall
 
 
 
 
 
 
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 A most wanted child to a most willing mother.
 
 
 2010 
 It was a perfectly ordinary day when a truly extraordinary letter was delivered to the wrong mailbox.
 The boxes were identical, positioned side by side and made of the same thin, cheap metal, now slightly rusted near the hinges. They were drilled into the brown brick wall beside the door to the antiques shop; the door whose bells jingled delightfully—or irritatingly, depending on whom you asked—every time a patron entered or exited.
 The mailbox for Thompson’s Antiques & Used Books was on the left and displayed the number one in a peeling gold sticker. The mailbox for the apartment above the shop was on the right with a matching label that bore the number two. There was hardly any difference, really, and yet it made a great deal of difference to Nancy Mitchell, who lived in the apartment upstairs and didn’t know about the letter she