The making of her /
Jiwa, Bernadette,
The making of her / Bernadette Jiwa. - Sydney, NSW : Bantam Books, part of Penguin Random House, 2022. - 336 pages ; 24 cm.
Dublin 1966. When Joan Quinn, a factory girl from the Cranmore Estate, marries Martin Egan, it looks like her dreams have come true. But all is not as it seems. Joan lives in the shadow of a secret - the couple's decision to give up their first daughter for adoption only months before. For the next three decades, Joan's marriage and her relationship with her second child Carmel suffer as a consequence. Then one day in 1996, a letter arrives from their eldest daughter. Emma needs her birth parents' help; it's a matter of life and death. And the fragile facade of Joan's life finally begins to crack.
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Adopted children.
Family secrets.
Mothers and daughters.
Nineteen nineties.
Nineteen sixties.
Adoption--Fiction.
Motherhood--Fiction.
Guilt--Fiction.
Marriage--Psychological aspects--Fiction.
Women--Ireland--Dublin--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Women--Social conditions--Ireland--Dublin--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Nineteen sixties--Fiction.
Nineteen nineties--Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.
Adopted children--Fiction.
Ireland--Dublin.
Dublin (Ireland)--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
823.92
The making of her / Bernadette Jiwa. - Sydney, NSW : Bantam Books, part of Penguin Random House, 2022. - 336 pages ; 24 cm.
Dublin 1966. When Joan Quinn, a factory girl from the Cranmore Estate, marries Martin Egan, it looks like her dreams have come true. But all is not as it seems. Joan lives in the shadow of a secret - the couple's decision to give up their first daughter for adoption only months before. For the next three decades, Joan's marriage and her relationship with her second child Carmel suffer as a consequence. Then one day in 1996, a letter arrives from their eldest daughter. Emma needs her birth parents' help; it's a matter of life and death. And the fragile facade of Joan's life finally begins to crack.
9781761045004 1761045008
Adopted children.
Family secrets.
Mothers and daughters.
Nineteen nineties.
Nineteen sixties.
Adoption--Fiction.
Motherhood--Fiction.
Guilt--Fiction.
Marriage--Psychological aspects--Fiction.
Women--Ireland--Dublin--Fiction.
Interpersonal relations--Fiction.
Women--Social conditions--Ireland--Dublin--Fiction.
Mothers and daughters--Fiction.
Nineteen sixties--Fiction.
Nineteen nineties--Fiction.
Family secrets--Fiction.
Adopted children--Fiction.
Ireland--Dublin.
Dublin (Ireland)--Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Historical fiction.
Domestic fiction.
823.92
