# Mother Of Pearl

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- Book: [Mother Of Pearl](https://www.bookquiver.com/mary-morrissy/mother-of-pearl) ([Mother Of Pearl.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/mary-morrissy/mother-of-pearl.md))
- Authors: [Mary Morrissy](https://www.bookquiver.com/mary-morrissy)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-17-8470-378-3
- Pages: 240
- Published: 2016-03-07
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

MOTHER OF PEARL, the first novel by an acclaimed Irish short-story writer, explores the disturbing territory of the divided self. Through the story of the kidnapping of a baby, the notion of personal history as received fiction is examined. The novel asks: what makes a family? Is it mere kinship through blood, or something more profound and intricate? What keeps it together? What tears it apart? The action of the novel is seen through the eyes of a baby's mother, the kidnapper and the child itself. Dramatic, blackly funny and tragically topical, MOTHER OF PEARL is a remarkable achievement.