Mine to Carry

Upon her return to Ireland, following a year of travel in India, a young Irishwoman is faced with a set of circumstances that take her on a journey of wrenching transformation. Deserted by her fiancée, she finds herself pregnant in a country where unwed pregnancy is taboo, and is launched thereby into out and out war with herself, her family and her culture. Banishing herself to England to hide the pregnancy, she takes a job as a nanny and there, in a country hostile to Ireland, and surrounded by people who are certain about what she should do, she faces her impossible choice: should she put her baby, or her own life, first? Despite a final and cruel turn of events, Cris finds inside herself the resources to move forward. Though it will be decades before she finds a way back to her child, she does find a way to a new and empowered relationship to herself, her life and her place in the world.