The Castle

In 1980, in the shadow of The Castle, a Mother and Baby Home tucked deep in the Irish countryside, a young woman’s life is rewritten by silence. Maeve O’Sullivan is nineteen, frightened, and alone when the Church takes her child and buries her story behind locked gates.

Decades later, that child, Anna, has grown into a woman who has learned to live with questions she was never meant to ask. When a letter arrives calling her back to Ireland, Anna begins to uncover the truth that was stolen from her: a truth of shame, faith, and a love that refused to die.

Spanning generations and told through the voices of mother and daughter, The Castle is a haunting and redemptive novel about survival, secrecy, and the unbreakable bond between women separated by the cruelty of their time.

Some walls hold their silence for generations.