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Chosen as one ofNew York Posts Best Books of 2022

People were forever telling her how lucky she was But what did people know

Dublin 1966When 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 the couples 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 parents help its a matter of life and death And the fragile facade of Joans life finally begins to crack

Spanning the nineties and the sixties with Dublin as its backdrop The Making of Her is the tender and pageturning story of marriage motherhood a culture that would not allow a woman to find true happinessand her journey to finally claim it