num_pages: 256
description: 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 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 Sarahand many other unwed Irish mothers of her generationfrightened traumatized and bereft. It is also a beautiful account of a remarkable relationship.
language: English
title: An Affair with My Mother: A Story of Adoption, Secrecy and Love
publisher: Penguin Ireland