<p><b>&apos;Incredibly moving&apos; --Anne Enright, winner of the Man Booker Prize</b><br /><b><i><br />An Affair with My Mother</i> by Caitriona Palmer: a moving and gripping story of love, denial and a daughter&apos;s quest for the truth.</b><br /><br />Caitriona 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. <br /><br />But 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. <br /><br />Who was Sarah, and why did she want to preserve a decades-old secret? <i>An Affair with My Mother</i> tells the story of Caitriona&apos;s quest to answer these questions, and of the intense, furtive &apos;affair&apos; she and her mother conducted in carefully chosen locations around Dublin. By turns heartwarming and heartbreaking, <i>An Affair with My Mother</i> 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.<br /><br />&apos;Caitriona Palmer has called out the false shame of her origins, with a kind of anguished courage that is <b>incredibly moving</b>. <i>An Affair With My Mother</i> 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.&apos; <b>Anne Enright, winner of the Man Booker Prize</b></p>