My Mother's Children: An Irish family secret and the scars it left behind.

My Mother's Children: An Irish family secret and the scars it left behind.
Authors
Annette Sills
Publisher
Poolbeg Press
Tags
irish fiction , historical fiction , irish fcition , epub , irish historical fiction , ebook , irish adoptions , family saga , mother and baby home , kindle unlimited
ISBN
9781781994214
Date
2021-03-23T22:00:00+00:00
Size
0.52 MB
Lang
en
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Irish Mancunian Carmel Doherty’s life is unravelling. She has just lost her mother Tess and brother Mikey, her marriage to Joe is coming apart at the seams and her thirty-year friendship with Karen is on the rocks.

While clearing out her childhood home, Carmel discovers that her mother gave birth to a baby in an Irish Mother and Baby home when she was sixteen, a place notorious for its mass burial of babies and illegal adoptions.

Carmel goes on a quest for the truth about her troubled mother’s past. Her roller-coaster journey takes her from her comfortable Manchester home to the west of Ireland and to London's theatre land. It’s a journey that leads her to ask: Can we ever escape our own family history or is our destiny in our DNA?