The Making of Her
Book Feature - The Making of Her by Bernadette Jiwa
HBL Note: We have a debut novelist, which are my favorite novelists to promote because I know how hard they worked, how long their journeys have been, the emotional toll it takes to get that first book published, and they made it! It gives the rest of us hope. Bernadette Jiwa was inspired to write THE MAKING OF HER because, being born and raised in Dublin, she didn’t recognize the Ireland represented in contemporary novels. As Toni Morrison says, “If there's a book that you want to read, but it hasn't been written yet, then you must write it.” That is exactly what Bernadette Jiwa did, she wrote the book that represented the Ireland she knew. Scroll down to read about THE MAKING OF HER, a “story of marriage, motherhood, and empowerment.”
Book Feature - The Making of Her by Bernadette Jiwa
Book Feature - The Making of Her by Bernadette Jiwa
From the publisher:
Dublin 1996. Joan Egan lives an enviable life. She and her husband, Martin, and daughter, Carmel, are thriving in Dublin at the dawn of an economic boom. But everything changes when Joan receives a letter from Emma, the daughter who she and Martin gave up for adoption thirty years before, asking for a life-or-death favor.
While Joan grapples with the guilt over giving up her baby long ago, she must confront her present as the cracks in her marriage become impossible to ignore and simmering tension with Carmel boils over. Meanwhile, Carmel and Emma must come to terms with the perceived sins of their mother, to imagine a future for their family before it is too late.
Spanning the nineties and the sixties, with Dublin as its backdrop, The Making of Her is the tender and page-turning story of marriage, motherhood, a culture that would not allow a woman to find true happiness—and her journey to finally claim it.
Book Feature - The Making of Her by Bernadette Jiwa
