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An Affair with My Mother: A Story of Adoption, Secrecy and Love

✍ Scribed by Palmer, Caitríona

Book ID: 109197470
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Year: 2016
Tongue: English
Weight: 271 KB
Category: Fiction
ISBN-13: 9780241971727

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✦ Synopsis

'Incredibly moving' --Anne Enright, winner of the Man Booker Prize
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An Affair with My Mother by Caitriona Palmer: a moving and gripping story of love, denial and a daughter's quest for the truth.

Caitriona Palmer had a happy childhood in Dublin, raised by loving adoptive parents. But when she was in her late twenties, she realized that she had a strong need to know the woman who had given birth to her. She was able to locate her birth mother, Sarah, and they developed a strong attachment.

But Sarah set one painful condition to this joyous new relationship: she wished to keep it - to keep Caitriona - secret from her family, from her friends, from everyone.

Who was Sarah, and why did she want to preserve a decades-old secret? An Affair with My Mother tells the story of Caitriona's quest to answer these questions, and of the intense, furtive 'affair' she and her mother conducted in carefully chosen locations...

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