Stories that refuse
to be contained
Novels and films set between Ireland and New York, about the secrets families keep and the people brave enough to break them open.
“Secrecy, lifelong guilt, and remorse aren’t even half of what she and the child will suffer in Deborah Henry’s novel.” O, The Oprah Magazine · Summer Reading Issue
The Whipping Club
Official Trailer
Featuring Eric Roberts. An interfaith couple in 1960s Dublin fights to reclaim the son the Church hid away. Listed on IMDb as a short film. Best Short, New Media Film Festival 2013.
Trailer by Film 14
From page to screen
The Whipping Club
Dublin, 1957. Marian McKeever, a young Catholic teacher, gives up her half-Jewish son in secret. A decade later the truth surfaces, and she and her husband Ben set out to bring the boy home from an orphanage that does not want to let him go.
A Kirkus starred review and Best of 2012 pick. Praised by Publishers Weekly. An Oprah Summer Reading selection.
Deborah Henry
Deborah Henry is the author of The Whipping Club, Circle in the Water, and the children’s book Watch Her Shine. She now writes and produces for the screen, adapting her own novels and developing original films in the United States, Ireland, and the United Kingdom.
She holds an MFA from Fairfield University, is a patron of the Irish Arts Center in New York, and founded the Deborah Henry Scholarship Fund for the Abroad Writers Conference in Dublin.
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Behind the scenes from the set, the desk, and the road to Ireland.
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