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Singing bird / Roisin McAuley.

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AF MCAU	Adult Fiction		Bankstown .	. On Loan .	11 Jul 2024

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ISBN	9780060737894 paperback
Name	McAuley, Roisin author.
Title	Singing bird / Roisin McAuley.
Edition	First Harper Perennial edition.
Published	New York : Harper Perennial, 2005.
Published	©2004
Description	312, 16 pages ; 24 cm.
Notes	"Originally published in Great Britain in 2004 by Headline Book Publishing"--Title page verso.
Notes	Includes P.S. insights, interviews and more.
Summary	Twenty seven years after she adopted her baby daughter in Ireland, Lena Molloy receives a mysterious call from Sister Monica, the nun who set up the adoption. She claims that she wants to merely tie up loose ends before she retires, but Lena feels both anxious and frightened after the call. Against her husband's wishes, and accompanied by her best friend, Alma -- who is nursing a broken heart -- Lena travels to the west of Ireland on a secret mission to trace the birth parents of her daughter, Mary, an up-and-coming star in the world of opera. At first the trail seems to have gone cold. Saint Joseph's home for unmarried mothers has become an old people's home, and Sister Monica is dismissive and unforthcoming. Then a chance meeting sets Lena on a journey through Ireland and into the past, taking her through many twists and turns to an outcome she could never have anticipated.
Subjects	Parent and adult child -- Fiction
	Mothers and daughters -- Fiction
	British -- Ireland -- Fiction
	Women singers -- Fiction
	Birthparents -- Fiction
	Catholics -- Fiction
	Adoptees -- Fiction
	Adoption -- Fiction
	Opera -- Fiction
	Nuns -- Fiction
	Ireland -- Fiction
Genre	Domestic fiction
Genre	Psychological fiction
Links to Related Works	Subject References: Adoptees -- Fiction . Adoption -- Fiction . Birthparents -- Fiction . British -- Ireland -- Fiction . Catholics -- Fiction . Domestic fiction . Ireland -- Fiction . Mothers and daughters -- Fiction . Nuns -- Fiction . Opera -- Fiction . Parent and adult child -- Fiction . Psychological fiction . Women singers -- Fiction . See Also: Stream of consciousness fiction . Authors: McAuley, Roisin .

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