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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786892362 | ISBN 10: 1786892367
How does a government steal a child and then imprison him? How does it keep it a secret? This story is how.Â
At the age of seventeen, after a childhood in a foster family followed by six years in care homes, Norman Greenwood was given his birth c ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781786497260 | ISBN 10: 1786497263
A raw and heart-wrenching literary memoir about a queer couple’s attempt to adopt a child.
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But would you take a ginger child? a social worker asks Patrick Flanery as he and his husband embark on their four-year odyssey of trying to adopt. This ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2017) - ISBN 13: 9781509858392 | ISBN 10: 1509858393
'What makes us who we are? My adoption is a story that has happened to me. I couldn't make it up.'Â
From the moment when, as a little girl, she realizes that her skin is a different colour from that of her beloved mum and dad, to the tracing ... more
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£9.95 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781910039427 | ISBN 10: 191003942x
'We’re preoccupied with thoughts of meeting Jessie…It’s like the feeling you have before a first date….butterflies in the stomach, nervous, nauseous. Will she like us? Will we bond?’
This is the true story of Jayne, Dan, their son ... more
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£12.99 paperback (2016) - ISBN 13: 9781849056601 | ISBN 10: 1849056609
Full of real life stories from adopters and adoptees, this book takes the reader on a journey through every stage of the adoption process. Readers will be inspired, encouraged and comforted by the honest accounts of the highs and lows of the adoption ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2014) - ISBN 13: 9780241965665 | ISBN 10: 0241965667
'My mother, who was not my mother, I see her now, her raw red cleaner's hands twisting away at her apron as she struggled to speak. Adoption was a shameful business then in many people's eyes, the babies being mostly illegitimate. Better not speak of ... more
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£13.95 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781907585661 | ISBN 10: 1907585664
Proud Parents is a compelling and poignant collection of stories of lesbians and gay men who have adopted or fostered children. Single and in partnerships, they share their experiences on a number of issues. What motivated them to adopt or foster? Ho ... more
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£8.99 paperback (2013) - ISBN 13: 9781444766851 | ISBN 10: 1444766856
Who can resist Billy's plea to 'Choose Me'?
Billy is only nine years old. But he's already learned that when your mum dies, you get your own social worker.
He's also learned that once you are ten, the odds of finding a family to adopt ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2012) - ISBN 13: 9781846687914 | ISBN 10: 1846687918
Probably best-known for her role as lead singer in The Selecter, one of the best British ska / 2 tone bands of the early 1980s, Pauline Black has lived a life rich in contradictions. Mixed-race, adopted to a middle-aged white couple, tracing some of ... more
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£8.95 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781907585296 | ISBN 10: 190758529x
This is the story of Pablo and Mike, and their journey to becoming adopters. Set against a contemporary backdrop of diverse perceptions – both encouraging as well as hostile, as to whether gay men should adopt, Pablo’s diarised narrative tracks t ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781408810019 | ISBN 10: 1408810018
‘Where are you from?’ is a question I always find hard to answer. 1971: an ad in Nursery World. ‘Private foster parents required for a three-month-old baby’ – me. The lucky applicants are a 57-year-old white woman and her daughter, who love babies, e ... more
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£8.95 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9781907585067 | ISBN 10: 1907585060
‘We had told Daisy that she was going to spend the late afternoon with Tommy right up until his bedtime at the foster carer’s. What actually happened was that Daisy sat and watched as the foster carer’s son territorially guarded what Daisy had been ... more
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£9.99 paperback (2011) - ISBN 13: 9780099535751 | ISBN 10: 0099535750
Message from an Unknown Chinese Mother is made up of the stories of Chinese mothers whose daughters have been wrenched from them, and also brings us the voices of some adoptive mothers from different parts of the world. These are stories which Xinran ... more
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£8.95 paperback (2010) - ISBN 13: 9781905664788 | ISBN 10: 1905664788
"This one story brings the theories, research, professional conferences and trainings to life. And makes all the effort worthwhile."(Dan Hughes PH.D, clinical psychologist and author of Building the Bonds of Attachment)
This compelling story t ... more
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£9.95 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9781905664375 | ISBN 10: 1905664370
I could have been born and raised in Africa. But my Spirit was in too much of a rush to be reincarnated... At six weeks I was chucked out into the new year of 1965 which wasn’t prepared to welcome an African baby, abandoned on a harsh English winter’ ... more
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£12.00 paperback (2008) - ISBN 13: 9780751539127 | ISBN 10: 0751539120
After the death of his mother, Paul and his brothers and sister spent the rest of their childhoods in a succession of children’s and foster homes where they found themselves at the mercy of adults more interested in their own welfare than providing a ... more
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£7.95 paperback (2007) - ISBN 13: 9781905664108 | ISBN 10: 1905664109
We are going to be adopted and stay with Mummy and Daddy forever! Danny looked up at me. Rita's words had disturbed him. 'I know why I had to leave my mum,' he said, 'but why do I have to live with you?' This is the true story of the adoption of ... more
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£19.95 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781903699775 | ISBN 10: 1903699770
Transracial adoption has provoked much polarised commentary, initiated heated debate and stirred up strong feelings. Yet the experience of transracially adopted people themselves remains on the margins and has rarely been given a voice.
Thro ... more
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£7.99 paperback (2006) - ISBN 13: 9781862078574 | ISBN 10: 1862078572
Family Wanted is a valuable collection of 25 predominantly autobiographical stories about adoption. In just simply telling the story of their lives these writers provide us with rich insights into history, society, culture and fomily dynamics, they a ... more
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£7.50 paperback (2005) - ISBN 13: 9781903699676 | ISBN 10: 1903699673
This is the story of a group of nine adoptive parents who came together for mutual support to look at the effects on themselves of living with traumatised children. They based their task on a form of research known as co-operative inquiry. The group ... more
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£25.00 paperback (1998) - ISBN 13: 9781853026003 | ISBN 10: 185302600x
"A book written by lesbians and gay men, concerned exclusively with fostering and adoption, produced here and not in the US, is a very rare treasure! This book is immensely readable. It tells openly and honestly how it is, without resorting to jargon ... more
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