Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother's Secrets by Clair Wills

How far would you go for the missing?When Clair Wills was in her twenties, she found out she had a cousin, Mary, who she had never met. In 1950s Ireland, Clair's uncle had got his lover Lily pregnant and gone to England, leaving her and the family farm - his inheritance - behind. Lily and Mary ended up in Bessborough Mother and Baby Home, not far from her grandmother's farm where Clair spent happy childhood summers, with no idea that Mary existed. The truly shocking thing about this story is how ordinary it was. It was repeated in families across Ireland for the last mother and baby home closed in 1998. How could this happen? How could a whole family - a whole country - tacitly agree to abandon unmarried mothers and their children to such a stark fate, even to their death? And how, Wills asks, could her grandmother live with herself. This 2024 Allen Lane Hardback is in good condition. DJ.

ISBN: 9780241640951 SKU: 1572359 Note: Any image shown is from a stock photo and is not the actual book.

Location: Biography