{"product_id":"missing-persons-or-my-grandmothers-secrets","title":"Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother's Secrets","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow far would you go for the missing?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e When Clair Wills was in her twenties, she discovered she had a cousin she had never met. Born in a Mother and Baby home in 1950s Ireland, Mary grew up in an institution not far from the farm where Clair spent happy childhood summers. Yet she was never told of her existence.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e How could a whole family - a whole country - abandon unmarried mothers and their children, erasing them from history?\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e To discover the missing pieces of her family's story, Clair searched across archives and nations, in a journey that would take her from the 1890s to the 1980s, from West Cork to rural Suffolk and Massachusetts, from absent fathers to the grief of a lost child.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e There are some experiences that do not want to be remembered. What began as an effort to piece together the facts became an act of decoding the most unreliable of evidence - stories, secrets, silences. The result is a moving, exquisitely told story of the secrets families keep, and the violence carried out in their name.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9781802063028\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Standard Secondhand — £1.00","offer_id":47917313163441,"sku":"SB-1802063021-C3","price":1.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/1802063021.jpg?v=1789615455","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/missing-persons-or-my-grandmothers-secrets","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}