Search query: the mistress's daughter by a.m. homes

Product: An Affair with My Mother: A Story of Adoption, Secrecy and Love
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'Incredibly moving' --Anne Enright, winner of the Man Booker Prize
An Affair with My Mother by Caitriona Palmer: a moving and gripping story of love, denial and a daughter's quest for the truth.
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.
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.
Who was Sarah, and why did she want to preserve a decades-old secret? An Affair with My Mother 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, An Affair with My Mother 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.
'Caitriona Palmer has called out the false shame of her origins, with a kind of anguished courage that is incredibly moving. An Affair With My Mother 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.' Anne Enright, winner of the Man Booker Prize

Product: Lucy Grealy’s "Autobiography of a Face" and A.M. Homes "The Mistress’s Daughter": Two Powerful Women on their journey through life
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Seminar paper from the year 2008 in the subject English - Literature, Works, grade: A, Hawai'i Pacific University (Hawai'i Pacific University), 3 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: Lucy Grealy’s Autobiography of a Face deals with the life of Lucy Grealy, who faced
the negative consequences of terminal cancer after the partial removal of her jaw. Like Lucy
Grealy, A.M. Homes also faced the negative consequences as she was found by her
biological mother, who put her up for adoption after her birth. Both memoirs have similar
narrative structures and a lot in common in terms of content; however, they have significant
differences as well.

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