Missing Persons, Or My Grandmother's Secrets

*Non-Fiction Book of the Year 2024, Irish Book Awards*

How far would you go for the missing?

Blending private and public history, cultural analysis, family memoir and autobiography, Clair Wills explores profound questions about memory, loss, motherhood and emigration. She traces a history of sexual secrecy through four generations of unplanned pregnancies in her own family, stretching from the 1890...