Her Name is Rose

When Iris Bowen makes a promise to her dying husband, it’s a promise she never expected to keep. But when she’s forced to confront her own mortality she understands it's time to honour that promise and go in search for the woman who gave birth to her daughter.\nHer Name Is Rose is a powerful and moving story of people connected not by the circumstance of their birth but by the ties that bind us all.\nIn Ireland, Iris is a free-spirited, impulsive and indomitable mother who gardens to exhaustion when she’s not writing for the local newspaper. When she makes the decision to find her daughter’s birth mother she pitches herself against the unknowable, armed with nothing more than a 20-year-old envelope.\nIn London, Rose is a first year violin student who, against the challenges of London life and a burgeoning career as a virtuoso, confronts a critical and brilliant mentor with disasterous consequences, which results in her abandoning her violin, on the Tube.\nAnd in New York City, Rowan, a landscape architect and a bachelor with a progressive alcohol problem, discovers a secret kept from him for 20 years when he meets a woman at his grandfather’s funeral.\nThe novel is a quest-story with a twist, the story of an adoptive mother’s journey to find the woman who gave birth to her daughter, and who ends up getting a second chance at love.