I Couldn't Love You More

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A sweeping story of three generations of women, crossing from London to Ireland and back, explores the enduring effort to uncover the secrets of the past. In London, 1960, Aoife Kelly, once the object of young men’s affections, now runs pubs with her brusque husband, Cash. Their courtship began during wartime before they returned to Ireland with their daughters. One daughter, independent-minded Rosaleen, moves back to London and begins an affair with Felix Lehmann, a German-Jewish sculptor twice her age. When Rosaleen discovers she is pregnant, she faces eviction and job loss, desperate to hide her secret from her family. Meanwhile, in present-day London, Kate, another generation down, navigates life with her young daughter and an unsuccessful, destructive husband. Adopted and struggling with her identity amid an unhappy marriage, Kate embarks on a quest to find her birth mother, leading her to a Magdalene Laundry in Ireland and its harrowing history. Stirring and nostalgic at times, and visceral at others, this tale offers a tender, candid portrait of love, motherhood, and family ties, capturing the complexities of mothers and daughters, wives and muses, secrets, and lies.