Looking for Jane

In 2017, Angela Creighton comes across a hidden letter containing a confession that could upend her life. Determined to find the person it was meant for, she is drawn back to the 1970s, when a circle of brave women ran a covert abortion network in Toronto. Its members spoke of it only in hushed tones, using the codename Jane.

In 1971, Dr. Evelyn Taylor is still a teenager when she is placed in a residence for young women deemed fallen, where she is made to give up her baby for adoption. That loss stays with her for the rest of her life. Even with police a constant danger, she joins the Jane network as a provider of abortions, driven by a wish to give other women the freedom that was denied to her.

In 1980, twenty-year-old Nancy Mitchell learns a disturbing secret about her family and begins to doubt everything she has taken for granted. An unplanned pregnancy leaves her feeling that she has nobody to turn to. As she weighs her options, she tracks down Jane and secures a place for herself among its members, working beside Dr. Taylor. Yet the deceptions that have shaped her past continue to follow her.