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The making of her / Bernadette Jiwa.
Publication details: Sydney, NSW : Bantam Books, part of Penguin Random House, 2022.Description: 336 pages ; 24 cmISBN:- 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
- 823.92 23/eng/20220528
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item reserves | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Book | Melbourne Athenaeum Library | Fiction | JIW | Available | 064199 |
Total reserves: 0
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.
