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Kate Adie
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Pages: 336 (Paperback)
ISBN: 0340838019
Pub: Hodder Paperbacks
Pub date: 2006-06-05
Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 11561
Reader Reviews:
Thought provoking and carefully researched (1/1 people found this helpful)
Kate Adie's research into the personal stories of foundlings and adoptees is written with sensitivity and without sentimentality. She talks to people from all walks of life whose uncertain beginnings have left them with a tangled web of half resolved questions and emotions.
As well as looking at the experiences of individual foundlings (many of whom are well known), Adie looks at the issues, personal and practical, moral and cultural, for the mothers who abandoned their babies and across a number of countries and religions.
The book is very thought provoking, particularly as the problem of "unwanted" babies and what to do with them is with us today, all around the world, as much as it ever was.
Somebody's Child (19/20 people found this helpful)
This book was bought for me by my birth mother who I made contact with 6 years ago at the age of 34. I've just bought it for my sister - also adopted. For anyone who has been adopted, especially someone who is a foundling, the book will be fascinating. The history of foundling hospitals from the mid 18th century to the present day is particularly interesting and not something that, to be honest, I was really aware of. For anyone who has been adopted, there will be many snippets that you will be able to relate to, which in my mind makes the book worth buying in itself. To know that you aren't alone in how you think or react is a crucial step in coming to terms with your past. Overall the book is well written, informative and sympathetic, in a non patronizing way, to the issues related to being adopted. I wonder if I should get a copy for ‘Mum and Dad’?
very slow and gruelling (4/21 people found this helpful)
Being a big fan of biographies, I thought this one would be great with all the adoption back in the 1970's etc, however author seems to whine on in ridiculous detail about the smallest of points. The descriptive style is old fashioned and not at all easy reading. I have given up 1/3 of the way in but hope to return to it again. Not a great read really. A little on the "bitter and twisted" side.
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