An Affair with My Mother: A Story of Adoption, Secrecy and Love

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Caitriona Palmer had a happy childhood, raised by loving adoptive parents. In her late twenties, she situated her birth mother, Sarah, they usually developed a strong attachment. But Sarah set one painful condition to this joyous new relationship: she wished to keep it secret, from everyone. Who used to be Sarah, and why did she wish to preserve a decades-old secret? That is the story of Caitriona’s quest to reply to these questions, and of the intense, furtive “affair” she and her mother conducted. This is a searing portrait of the social and familial forces that left Sarah—and plenty of other unwed Irish mothers of her generation—frightened, traumatized, and bereft. It is usually a ravishing account of a remarkable relationship.
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