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The Making of Her is a page-turning mother-daughter love story spanning the 1960s to 1990s charting one womans journey to escape the legacy of the society that shaped her. An absorbing brilliantly paced book; I didn't want it to end.' Roddy Doyle People were forever telling her how lucky she was. But what did people know? 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 couples decision to give up their first daughter for adoption only months before. For the next three decades Joans 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; its a matter of life and death. And the fragile facade of Joans life finally begins to crack.
Bernadette Jiwa
Penguin Random House
Paperback
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