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Review: The Forgotten Daughter by Joanna Goodman

The Forgotten Daughter


The Forgotten Daughter📚 Hello Book Friends! THE FORGOTTEN DAUGHTER by Joanna Goodman was a beautiful and yet exceedingly difficult read for me. Difficult because it brought back memories about a time when there were tense events in my childhood province. I was a child when the October Crisis took place in Québec. I remember it well and those memories are still giving me an unsettled feeling whenever I think about them. Although loosely based on the actual October Crisis events, this novel succeeds to emanate the tension of those times and up to the early 2000s. The book is about Véronique Fortin, daughter of Léo Fortin, an FLQ leader who was accused and found guilty of the kidnapping and murder of Pierre Laporte in 1970. Véronique idolizes her father and is determined to make her mark in life. She falls in love with James, an English journalist who does not share her ideologies. They are madly in love and have been able to overcome their political differences until James publishes an article about Véronique’s father. Will their love survive?

The book is also the continuation of Elodie’s tale. We discovered her story in Goodman’s novel entitled The Home for Unwanted Girls. Elodie was a Duplessis orphan. The orphans were wrongly certified as mentally ill by the provincial government of Québec and confined to psychiatric institutions in the 1940s and 1950s. The children were deliberately misdiagnosed to embezzle additional subsidies from the federal government. In the ’90s, these orphans united to find compensation to cover medical and psychological care that many of them needed suite to the abuse they received in these institutions. They also demanded a public apology from the Catholic church, the government of Québec, and the doctors who wrongly diagnosed them as mentally incompetent. Will Elodie find peace and emotional healing?

If you love historical novels with an element of truth, this one is for you. It shows many of the dark moments which took place in La Belle Province.

🙋🏼‍♀️ Thank you, HARPERCOLLINS CANADA for sending me an advanced copy of this beautiful book. THE FORGOTTEN DAUGHTER by Joanne Goodman is now available at your favourite bookstore.

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