Bøker av Merry Jones

Nora Warren hides her dark side well because she's had years of practice.The wife of a lawyer and mother of two girls, she slides under everyone's radar, never revealing what she really is-a murderer.At least, she feels like one.Nora is plagued by secrets surrounding her older brother's suicide decades earlier. Uet she lives as though he never existed.Now, she suspects that her husband is having an affair with her friend, the wife of a leading US Senate candidate. When her firend's body is discovered-another apparent suicide-Nora is left with haunting secrets and choices that dredge up the grim nature, the side of herself that no one ever sees. Will she act upon her impulses? Mustn't she?How far will Nora go to protect the life she has so painstakingly built for herself?

Birthmothers presents intimate and stirring accounts of more than seventy women who surrendered babies for adoption. It follows their lives long-term, from discovery of their pregnancies through the present, and identifies the Birthmother Syndromea pattern of behavior and emotions resulting from surrender. With heartwarming candor, Birthmothers reveals the stories of the invisible side of the adoption triangle, and touches everyone involved in adoption, as well as anyone interested in motherhood, family, and women in our society.