Although this book was a bit hard to follow, alternating between two voices and leaping backward and forward through time, I would strongly recommend it. Maddie McGlade, a resident at Oranmore Nursing Home, Dorstewart, Northern Ireland, in 1968, tells Anna the history of events surrounding her birth and the secrets she has held these many years. Harriet Ormond's diary has been discovered in her butterfly cabinet and it recounts her year in Grangegorman Prison, Dublin, her past and her culpability in the death of her daughter, Charlotte. Based on a true story of the death of the daughter of an aristocratic Irish family at the end of the 19th century, it is a riveting tale of the importance of maternal love.
"You can't rear children on morsels of love."
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