# The Orphan Mother

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- Book: [The Orphan Mother](https://www.bookquiver.com/sir-robert-adrian-hicks/the-orphan-mother) ([The Orphan Mother.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/sir-robert-adrian-hicks/the-orphan-mother.md))
- Authors: [Sir Robert Adrian Hicks](https://www.bookquiver.com/sir-robert-adrian-hicks)
- Publisher: grand_central_publishing
- ISBN: 978-14-5554-173-7
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2016-09-13
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

An epic account of one remarkable woman's quest for justice from the New York Times bestselling author of The Widow of the South and A Separate Country. In the years following the Civil War, Mariah Reddick, former slave to Carrie McGavock--the " Widow of the South"--has quietly built a new life for herself as a midwife to the women of Franklin, Tennessee. But when her ambitious, politically minded grown son, Theopolis, is murdered, Mariah--no stranger to loss--finds her world once more breaking apart. How could this happen? Who wanted him dead? Mariah's journey to uncover the truth leads her to unexpected people--including George Tole, a recent arrival to town, fleeing a difficult past of his own--and forces her to confront the truths of her own past. Brimming with the vivid prose and historical research that has won Robert Hicks recognition as a " master storyteller" (San Francisco Chronicle).