'A true storyteller who keeps you turning the pages' Cathy Kelly

Inspired by heartrending real events in a home for unwed mothers.

For almost fifty years, Katie Carroll has kept a box tucked away inside her wardrobe. It dates from her time working as a nurse in a west of Ireland home for unwed mothers in the 1970s. The box contains a notebook holding the details of the babies and young women she met there. It also holds many of the babies' identity bracelets.

Following the death of her husband, Katie makes a decision. The information she possesses could help reunite adopted people with their birth mothers, and she decides to post a message on an online forum. Soon the replies are rolling in, and Katie finds herself returning many of the bracelets to their original owners. She encounters success and failure, heartbreak and joy. But is she prepared for old secrets to be uncovered in her own life?

Acclaim for Rachael English

'A cracking page-turner' Patricia Scanlan

'Beautiful and compelling' Irish Independent

'Powerful and evocative' Between My Lines

'Heartbreaking' Being Anne

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Fiction £8.99
ISBN 9781472264664
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