{"product_id":"an-affair-with-my-mother-a-story-of-adoption-secrecy-and-love","title":"Affair with My Mother","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eAn Affair with My Mother\u003c\/i\u003e by Caitriona Palmer: a moving and gripping story of love, denial and a daughter's quest for the truth.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCaitriona 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eBut 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWho was Sarah, and why did she want to preserve a decades-old secret? \u003ci\u003eAn Affair with My Mother\u003c\/i\u003e 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 around Dublin. By turns heartwarming and heartbreaking, \u003ci\u003eAn Affair with My Mother\u003c\/i\u003e is a searing portrait of the social and familial forces that left Sarah - and so many other unwed Irish mothers of her generation - frightened, traumatized and bereft.  It is also a beautifully written account of a remarkable relationship.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e'Caitriona Palmer has called out the false shame of her origins, with a kind of anguished courage that is \u003cb\u003eincredibly moving\u003c\/b\u003e. \u003ci\u003eAn Affair With My Mother\u003c\/i\u003e is a forensic account of how it feels to be - in the interests of Catholic \"respectability\" - excluded from the facts of your own life. In its commitment to family love, to joy and truth, it is a gift.' \u003cb\u003eAnne Enright, winner of the Man Booker Prize\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54011762213208,"sku":null,"price":19.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780241971734_17f179c7-2b66-4bed-b826-83b5083745d7.jpg?v=1778639458","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/an-affair-with-my-mother-a-story-of-adoption-secrecy-and-love","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}