Two timelines. Two women. One truth that changes everything.​In 2011, journalist Maeve Grisham begins a search for her birth mother—one that leads her into the dark legacy of Ireland’s mother-and-baby homes.​​In 1984 County Kildare, sixteen-year-old Fiona Grisham is forced to leave home after an unplanned pregnancy, with no say in her future.​Spanning two generations, County Kildare is a literary novel about motherhood, secrecy, and the bonds that endure despite distance, time, and silence.

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County Kildare, has been shortlisted for the Chanticleer Somerset Award for Literary Fiction.