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

By Caitriona Palmer

Book Overview

Caitriona Palmer had a happy childhood, raised by loving adoptive parents. In her late twenties, she located 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 secret, from everyone. Who was Sarah, and why did she want to preserve a decades-old secret? This is the story of Caitriona's quest to answer these questions, and of the intense, furtive "affair" she and her mother conducted. It is a searing portrait of the social and familial forces that left Sarah--and many other unwed Irish mothers of her generation--frightened, traumatized, and bereft. It is also a beautiful account of a remarkable relationship.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844883574
• ISBN13: 9781844883578
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Penguin Ireland
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.8" x 6.0"