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A rich, heartbreaking novel, moving between west of Ireland and Boston, of a mother's love, a baby girl, a courageous voyage, and a forgotten story that binds two families separated by an ocean... She had left behind everything she loved to forge a future for the one she treasured most... 2019...

For almost 50 years, Katie Carroll has kept a box tucked away inside her wardrobe. It dates from her time working as a nurse in a west of Ireland mother and baby home in the 1960s. The box contains a notebook holding the details of the babies and young women she met there. It also holds many of the babies' identity bracelets. Following the death of her husband, Katie makes a decision. The information she possesses could help reunite adopted people with their birth mothers, and she decides to post a message on an internet forum.

In the early 1980s, The Diamonds - Ireland's trailblazing all-woman rock band - were on the brink of international success. Their debut single 'Too Much Not Enough' was soaring the British charts. Then, as suddenly as they'd arrived, they vanished. It was the last anyone would hear of songwriter, guitarist and legend-in-the-making Birdy Troy. Stacey Nash, host of the popular podcast 'Whatever Happened To...?', becomes fascinated with the band that broke up before she was born. And as problems mount in her own life, Stacey is drawn deeper into unravelling the mystery.

Seit fast 50 Jahren bewahrt die irische Krankenschwester Katie ein Geheimnis auf, gut versteckt im hintersten Winkel ihres Kleiderschranks: eine Kiste mit Armbändern. Sie stammen von Babys, die in den 70er-Jahren gegen den Willen ihrer Mütter zur Adoption freigegeben wurden. Katie sieht die Zeit gekommen, Mütter und Kinder endlich wieder zu vereinen. Denn hinter jedem Armband verbirgt sich eine Geschichte voller Herzschmerz und Hoffnung, und jedes Kind hat ein Recht auf die Wahrheit. Aber ist Katie auch bereit, sich ihrer eigenen Vergangenheit zu stellen?