Clair Wills & Alice Spawls: Missing Persons, or My Grandmother’s Secrets
Thursday 25 January 2024, 7 p.m. · 66 minutes![](https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/300_filter/images/7/1/6/1/4201617-1-eng-GB/Clair%20Wills.jpg 300w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/400_filter/images/7/1/6/1/4201617-1-eng-GB/Clair%20Wills.jpg 400w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/800_filter/images/7/1/6/1/4201617-1-eng-GB/Clair%20Wills.jpg 800w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/1200_filter/images/7/1/6/1/4201617-1-eng-GB/Clair%20Wills.jpg 1200w)
When Clair Wills was in her twenties, she discovered she had a cousin she had never met. Missing Persons, or My Grandmother’s Secrets is a detective story, memoir and cultural history of Ireland’s Mother and Baby homes. ‘Attending to the ways that the past ruptures and grows through the present’, writes Seán Hewitt, ‘this is a history shaken by intimacy – a brave and rigorously humane book.’
Wills was in conversation with Alice Spawls, editor of the LRB and co-editor of After Sex (Silver Press).
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