Product Description: Iris Bowen is a young Irish gardener and mother of a beloved adopted daughter, Rose. A recent widow, Iris has spent the last two years concentrating on the day-to-day business of launching Rose into the world. But when she receives some worrisome results on a breast scan, the words of her husband as he was dying of cancer become hauntingly urgent...read more

Product Description:  In the repressive Fifties, an outsider in an impoverished, tightly knit Dublin community defies the odds to live her dream of independence. Until very recently, if a woman became pregnant out of marriage in Ireland, her future was grim...read more