Clair Wills & Alice Spawls: Missing Persons, or My Grandmother's Secrets
<p>When Clair Wills was in her twenties, she discovered she had a cousin she had never met.&nbsp;<a href="https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/missing-persons-or-my-grandmother-s-secrets-clair-wills" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>Missing Persons, or My Grandmother’s Secrets</em></a>&nbsp;is a detective story, memoir and cultural history of Ireland’s Mother and Baby homes. ‘Attending to the ways that the past ruptures and grows through the present’, writes Seán Hewitt, ‘this is a history shaken by intimacy – a brave and rigorously humane book.’ Wills was joined in conversation with Alice Spawls, editor of the&nbsp;<em>LRB</em>&nbsp;and co-editor of&nbsp;<a href="https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/after-sex-edna-bonhomme-alice-spawls" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank"><em>After Sex&nbsp;</em></a>(Silver Press).</p><br><p>Get the book: <a href="https://lrb.me/missingpersons" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lrb.me/missingpersons</a></p><p>Find more events at the Bookshop: <a href="https://lrb.me/eventspod" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://lrb.me/eventspod</a></p><p><br></p><hr><p style='color:grey; font-size:0.75em;'> Hosted on Acast. See <a style='color:grey;' target='_blank' rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https://acast.com/privacy'>acast.com/privacy</a> for more information.</p>
London Review Bookshop Podcast
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Show Notes
When Clair Wills was in her twenties, she discovered she had a cousin she had never met. Missing Persons, or My Grandmother’s Secrets is a detective story, memoir and cultural history of Ireland’s Mother and Baby homes. ‘Attending to the ways that the past ruptures and grows through the present’, writes Seán Hewitt, ‘this is a history shaken by intimacy – a brave and rigorously humane book.’ Wills was joined in conversation with Alice Spawls, editor of the LRB and co-editor of After Sex (Silver Press).
Get the book: https://lrb.me/missingpersons
Find more events at the Bookshop: https://lrb.me/eventspod
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