Dimensions
155 x 233 x 30mm
A gripping tale of family secrets and home truths for fans of Maeve Binchy and Maggie O'Farrell.
Boston 1968. Rose Moroney is seventeen, smart, spirited - and pregnant. She wants to marry her boyfriend. Her ambitious parents have other plans. She is sent to Ireland, their birthplace, to deliver her daughter in a mother and baby home. - and part with her against her will.
Dublin 2013. Martha Sheeran's life has come undone. Her marriage is over, and her husband has moved on with unsettling speed. Under pressure from her teenage daughter, she starts looking for the woman who gave her up for adoption more than forty years before.
As her search leads her to the heart of long-buried family secrets, old flame Paudie Carmody - now a well-known broadcaster - re-enters the frame, casting new light on past circumstances.
From Boston to rural Ireland; from Dublin back to Boston, THE AMERICAN GIRL is a heart-warming and enthralling story about mothers and daughters, love and cruelty and, ultimately, the struggle for acceptance - and the embrace of new horizons.
