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A stunning and touching debut novel, from a new Irish author.
Imagine finding out you have a brother, the same first name as yourself, but older, who lived with you in the family home, as a lodger, but you never knew he was your brother.
This is the story of Marianne, a woman with secrets for over fifty years, who died of a heart attack within days of knowing those family secrets that she had worked hard to keep hidden were about to come out.
The family.
Gerald said, "I don't know whether my first emotion was shock, disappointment, disbelief or anger but if it was true, it changed my whole perception of my mother".
Karl said, "Gerald M said to me, I have something to tell you that I hoped I would never have to".
Martin said, "My hands were shaking as I tore open the envelope and started to read. Finally, I would know for sure where I came from.
Lily said, "It did hit me badly when I found out that one of the women who used to visit me in the orphanage, let me believe my mother was dead and she was my aunt was actually my mother.
Gerald M said, "I made your Mum a promise a long time ago that you would never hear it from me till the day I die, even after her death. I couldn't even mourn her properly.
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