Alice Hoffman - The Invisible Hour

Mia wished she was in that place right now, in the field where sunflowers grew, where it might be possible to be who you wished to be and you could read books all day long and no on would say a word about it. A place where no one would punish you for being who you were.

Sixteen-year-old Ivy is pregnant and alone. Cast out by her family, she seeks refuge in a community which she believes will offer peace and safely, a world away from the life she led in Boston. Only too late does she discover that oppression and struct rule curtail any notion of freedom.

Ivy’s daughter Mia has known only the claustrophobic life of the community. Breaking rules carries serious consequences but stumbling upon a world beyond is enticing and intoxicating. Mia will begin to discover that readers and writers affect one another in mysterious ways, that time is more fluid than she can possibly imagine, and love is far stronger than any chains that bind us.