num_pages: 352
description: Chosen as one of New York Post's Best Books of 2022People 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 Joan lives in the shadow of a secret  the couples decision to give up their first daughter for adoption only months before.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. Spanning the nineties and the sixties with Dublin as its backdrop The Making of Her is the tender and page-turning story of marriage motherhood a culture that would not allow a woman to find true happinessand her journey to finally claim it.
language: English
title: The Making of Her
publisher: Dutton