ABANDONED: The true story of a little girl who didn't belong

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Jennie and Peter will face many challenges—and not all of them are from the dangerous outside world—in their struggle to find a place that is truly home.

Author Donna Hemans discusses how she hoped to create a history for her family in her new literary fiction novel, The House of Plain Truth.Today, remnants of the country's heritage can be found in every corner of this fascinating land, from the thinly inhabited west coast to the modern, populated areas of Leinster. And the main purpose of my early years was to try to make myself as silent and as invisible as possible so that he would forget about me, and let me stay, to be part of the family I saw as my own. and “I guess you had to be there" by utilizing sensory details, learning to trust their writing intuitions, and developing a skilled internal editor to help with revision.

Mummy told me that much one night after my uncle had stormed off to bed following one of their drunken arguments. Left to the elements but ignored by humanity, these ramshackle settlements and dilapidated structures illuminate times and designs that we thought were long gone.

Sometimes when we were on our own she would tell me stories about Kathy, and how she came over to England on her own on the ferry to have me in London, stories that only part of me wanted to hear. I tried hard not to imagine the grandparents I’d only ever heard stories about, dying just through knowing that I was alive. I don’t agree that we should let the past impact on our future, especially since she had so many chances to live a successful life. Denise Massar is an essayist and memoirist, writing about motherhood, adoption, relationships, racism, and anything else she can’t stop thinking about.