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An absorbing, brilliantly paced book; I didn't want it to end.

- Roddy Doyle

The Making of Her sucked me in from the very first page, and didn’t let up until I’d turned the last. Heart-warming and heart-breaking, it is an exquisite examination of the secrets that haunt us. I cried several times. A stunning debut.

- Sally Hepworth

Bernadette Jiwa writes with compassion and grace about what it means to be a mother, a daughter and a sister.

- Pip Williams

Oh how I love this novel! Once I started reading I never looked away, except when my eyes filled with tears. The Making of Her renders its characters so perfectly, and with so much compassion, they feel like dear friends after only a few chapters. Bernadette Jiwa has written a beautiful tribute to what our lives can become when shame is forgotten, and love is reclaimed.

- Nina de Gramont

Bernadette Jiwa’s moving fiction debut, The Making of Her, explores the impact of secrets, the magnitude of our choices, and the tenuous binds of family. Set in Dublin and shifting between past and present, this deeply evocative novel is a masterful study into what it really means to love, and to forgive. The Making of Her is ultimately a story about the plight and power of women, and is not to be missed.

- Karma Brown

THE MAKING OF HER is a compelling and tender exploration of the unattainable expectations of women, the shame and guilt inherent in motherhood, and the reverberations of the hardest choices we make. Jiwa gives us a beautifully crafted, thought-provoking novel that ultimately celebrates the strength of women. A true pleasure to read.

- Ashley Audrain

About the Book

THE MAKING OF HER is a page-turning mother-daughter love story, spanning three decades from the 1960s to 1990s, charting one woman’s journey to escape the legacy of the society that shaped her.

‘An absorbing, brilliantly paced book; I didn’t want it to end.’ Roddy Doyle

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

Dublin 1966. When Joan Quinn, a factory girl from the Cranmore Estate, marries Martin Egan, it looks like her dreams have come true. But all is not as it seems.

Joan lives in the shadow of a secret – the couple’s decision to give up their first daughter for adoption only months before.

For the next three decades, Joan’s marriage and her relationship with her second child Carmel suffer as a consequence.

Then one day in 1996, a letter arrives from their eldest daughter. Emma needs her birth parents’ help; it’s a matter of life and death. And the fragile facade of Joan’s life finally begins to crack.

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Available June 2022

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Imprint : Bantam Australia
Pages : 352
ISBN : 9781761045004
ISBN-10 : 1761045008
Publisher : Random House Australia
Category : Historical fiction , General Fiction

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Thanks to every reader and friend in the US who bo Thanks to every reader and friend in the US who bought or gifted a copy of THE MAKING OF HER ebook today. Our Joan is holding her own at #1 in the Amazon Bestseller charts in British & Irish Literary Fiction. 🧡 It's not too late to grab your copy for just $1.99 in the USA, 99p in the UK and $4.99 in ANZ. Happy long weekend! 🐰 🐣 🐰
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Dear friends in the UK, Ireland and Europe, The Ma Dear friends in the UK, Ireland and Europe, The Making of Her is now available on Kindle for just 99p (link in bio). 🎉🎉🎉 Thanks to all the readers in those regions who have reached out asking how to get hold of a copy. I can't wait for you to read it! 🙏 And thank you @kellyexeter for the stunning cover and book design. 😍
The ebook of my novel, The Making of Her, is now a The ebook of my novel, The Making of Her, is now available in Australia for the very special price of 99 cents. 😮 Link in bio. Go get your copy or gift a few to your girlfriends or book club buddies. 🥰
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Thanks, @nypost, for choosing The Making of Her as Thanks, @nypost, for choosing The Making of Her as one of The Best Books of 2022! https://nypost.com/2022/12/17/best-books-of-2022-top-30-must-read-titles-of-the-year/ And thanks to every reader, reviewer, book club and bookseller who has taken Joan, Carmel and Emma to their hearts. 💛
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