Chosen as one of New York Post's Best Books of 2022
People were forever telling her how lucky she was. But what did people know?â
Dublin 1966. When Joan Quinn, a factory girl from the Cranmore Estate, marries Martin Egan, it looks like her dreams have come true. But Joan lives in the shadow of a secret â the coupleâs decision to give up their first daughter for adoption only months before.
Then one day in 1996, a letter arrives from their eldest daughter. Emma needs her birth parentsâ help; itâs a matter of life and death. And the fragile facade of Joanâs life finally begins to crack.
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Spanning the nineties and the sixties, with Dublin as its backdrop, The Making of Her is the tender and page-turning story of marriage, motherhood, a culture that would not allow a woman to find true happinessâand her journey to finally claim it.