Dimensions
151 x 235 x 23mm
Old secrets, new friendships and a journey to the heart of Ireland.
Twenty-seven years after she adopted a baby girl in Ireland, Lena Molloy receives a call from the nun who set up the adoption. Sister Monica claims that she merely wants to tie up loose ends before she retires, but Lena is intrigued and worried by the call, and has her own loose ends to tie up. With her best friend, Alma, she travels to the west of Ireland on a secret mission to trace the birth parents of her daughter, now making her intentional debut as an opera singer.
At first the trail seems to have gone cold. Saint Joseph's home for unmarried mothers has become an old people's home and Sister Monica in the flesh is dismissive and unforthcoming. Then a chance meeting sets Lena on a journey through Ireland and into the past, taking her through many twists and turns to an outcome which in her eldest dreams she could not have foreseen.
