By Keith Donohue
"A magical story of affection and redemption that's as splendidly written because it is attractive . . . Angels earns its wings."
–Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
Margaret Quinn lives on my own, quietly mourning the disappearance of her in simple terms baby, who fled ten years prior to affix an intensive pupil team referred to as the Angels of Destruction.
On a chilly winter’s evening, a nine-year-old lady arrives on Margaret’s doorstep, claiming to be an orphan with out position to move. This baby beguiles Margaret, and jointly they hatch a plan to move her off as her newly came across granddaughter, Norah Quinn.
Their conspiracy is made weak through Norah’s magical revelations to the kids of town, and by means of a lone determine shadowing the woman, who threatens to bare the child’s precise identification and objective. who're those strangers rather? and what's their connection to the prior, the Angels, and Margaret’s long-missing daughter?
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She hid the portfolio under her mattress, saving it for closer study. The aroma of pancakes rose from downstairs, and an unfamiliar grumble sounded in her stomach. She imagined, below in the kitchen, the woman stirring the batter, setting the table, preparing herself. The time was right for her entrance. Standing on her toes, Norah could just reach the bottom of the mirror by the door. She wet her fingertips in her mouth and combed her tangled hair, straightened her glasses, and practiced smiling.
Granddaughter? ” “Oh, sure there is,” Joyce said. “She showed me a new hat and coat. ” He chuckled to himself. ” The baby kicked again at the sound of his voice, and wicked desire filled Joyce with a guilty pleasure. She twisted her wedding ring and looked hopelessly at the front door, wondering if anyone would come in. 10 During long division, as Mrs. Patterson worked on remainders at the chalkboard, Sean kept spinning around in his desk chair to make sure Norah stayed awake. Even when he was called to the front to demonstrate how to divide 400 by 6, he checked on the progress of her fatigue.
They shuffled in a daze from bin to bin, and Margaret read in every face some suffering or disappointment, their hopes and dreams marked down, 40 percent off. She wondered if others saw the shame written in her eyes and scratched across her brow. The others, if they noticed her at all, must have recognized her as that woman whose daughter had run away from home, gotten into trouble, and never returned. Photographs of Erica had been in the papers and on television when the story broke, and even Margaret and Paul had once been on the front page of the local newspaper.