01544cam a2200289 4500 603663281 TxAuBib 20220831120000.0 211117s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780593186138 0593186133 (OCoLC)1285573521 TxAuBib Jiwa, Bernadette, author. The making of her / Bernadette Jiwa. [New York] : Dutton, [2022] 336 pages ; 24 cm. "People were forever telling her how lucky she was. But what did people know?" Dublin 1965. 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 adopted 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. 20220831. Mothers and daughters Fiction. Family secrets Fiction. Adopted children Fiction. Motherhood Fiction. Guilt Fiction. Dublin (Ireland) Fiction. Historical fiction.