ABOUT THE BOOK:

In 1969, Naomi Morrisey, the sixth of eleven children raised in a traditional Australian Catholic family, became pregnant at age 19. In order to hide their shame, her parents uprooted their family and moved to Canada for six months, where Naomi was placed in a home for unmarried mothers. After being forced to relinquish her baby for adoption, the family returned to Australia as if this event never occurred. She and her family didn’t talk about this for decades. SUNLIGHT ON SHARDS is Naomi’s account of her life-long struggle to emerge from this silence, guilt, and grief about the loss of her child.

Available in hard cover, paperback and ebook at Amazon, Indigo, etc.

Book: Sunlight on Shards: Adoption From the Inside Out, by Bernadette Rymer and Thérèse Curtis (2023)

ABOUT THE BOOK:

In 1969, Naomi Morrisey, the sixth of eleven children raised in a traditional Australian Catholic family, became pregnant at age 19. In order to hide their shame, her parents uprooted their family and moved to Canada for six months, where Naomi was placed in a home for unmarried mothers. After being forced to relinquish her baby for adoption, the family returned to Australia as if this event never occurred. She and her family didn’t talk about this for decades. SUNLIGHT ON SHARDS is Naomi’s account of her life-long struggle to emerge from this silence, guilt, and grief about the loss of her child.

Available in hard cover, paperback and ebook at Amazon, Indigo, etc.