No Names to Be Given by Julia Brewer Daily – Review by Kerry Carr

No Names to Be Given by Julia Brewer Daily
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This is a really amazing story to read. It is set in the 1960s and for women today what the characters are put through is something we can’t even imagine. The story itself is heartbreaking. As a mother myself I couldn’t imagine having to give up my child because i was unmarried. The author deals with some very serious subjects in this story such as racial discrimination, abuse and rape but it is done in a way that is respectful and gives you a real insight into how some people’s lives were during that time and that’s what makes this book so touching is the fact that even our characters are fictional their circumstances and their lives probably would have existed.

At the start of the book we meet our 3 woman, Sandy, Becca  and Faith. 3 women from 3 different backgrounds but the one thing that connects them is that they are in a home for unmarried women to give birth and then give up their children.
Sandy had left her home and ran away from an abusive parent. She found a job as a dancer in a bar.
Becca  fell in love with someone of the wrong skin colour. At that time interacial relationships were frowned upon and seen as wrong
Faith came from a strict religious family. When an incident with someone close to the family happened, Faith felt she couldn’t confide in her parents for fear of not being believed.

After we meet our women we are then take forward in their lives to see how their lives have progressed and we also see the story from the eyes of the children that they had given up at birth.

This is a really heartwrenching story made all the more so but how realistic these situations would have been during that time.

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