The House of Eve Ruby and Eleanor 1948

''Amazing'' Reese Witherspoon ''Heart-rending'' Taylor Jenkins Reid ''Luminous and moving!'' Kate Quinn ''Unforgettable'' Kristen Harmel The heartbreaking and completely unputdownable instant New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick about the pain and sacrifice of forbidden love, the lengths a mother will go to protect her child, and survival against the toughest of odds. Philadelphia, 1948: Fifteen-year-old Ruby ''s dreams are almost within reach. She''s going to be the first in her family to attend college, despite having a mother more interested in keeping a man than raising her only daughter. But falling madly in love with the one boy she is forbidden from threatens to pull Ruby back into poverty and desperation. When she''s imprisoned in a home for unwed mothers - locked in the House of Eve with other ''fallen girls'' - everything she''s worked so hard for starts slipp