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She was raised inside religion. She became a young mother and a teen bride. Then one day she walked away.
The Birth of IRIS: A Memoir of Awakening is the true story of a woman who spent decades believing she had to be small, quiet, and grateful - until something inside her finally said: no more.
Born in South Africa, raised in fear, and carried across oceans by two marriages and a faith she could no longer breathe inside, Adele tells the unvarnished story of her unraveling and her becoming. Of children grown and choices made. Of the moment a healer named Iris first stepped forward from inside her - and refused to leave.
This is not a self-help book. It is not a manual. It is one woman's quiet refusal to live a lie for one more day, and the long road that led her home to herself.
Written in two voices - Adele's and Iris's - The Birth of IRIS is the foundation memoir of the IRIS Books series. Book Two, in which Iris fully takes the pen, is forthcoming.
For readers who have ever wondered if there is more than the life they were handed.
For anyone leaving a faith, a marriage, a country, or a version of themselves they no longer recognise.
For the women who were told they were too much, and lived through it.
Iris has been waiting.
