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'Utterly direct . . . The poems are passionate yet controlled, simple in form and sparing of imagery' FINANCIAL TIMES'Luke wright and this time it's personal. But seriously, a highly original idea, expertly carried out' JOHN COOPER CLARKE'I was bawling from the first...
Editeur :
Fleet
Parution :
2026-01-29
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'This is a book that everyone must read. It's funny, moving and of course it's often sad. But mainly it's a beautiful and fascinating and enlightening portrait of the care system, a world that is barely understood by many of us. It is also a proper page turner: the...
Editeur :
Hodder & Stoughton
Parution :
2024-06-13
ePub
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6,49€
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'Absorbing, thoughtful and moving... a wonderfully engaging feelgood read that you'll want to come back to again and again' MIKE GAYLE'Libby Page is a literary burst of sunshine . . . Utterly delightful' VERONICA HENRY'An absolute must-read' WOMAN'S...
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Orion
Parution :
2023-02-16
ePub
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5,49€
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An NPR Best Book of 2022An incredible, deeply reported story of identical twins Isabella and Hà, born in Viêt Nam and raised on opposite sides of the world, each knowing little about the other’s existence until they were reunited as teenagers, against...
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Algonquin Books
Parution :
2022-10-11
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He looked lost and sad, I felt so sorry for him.'What's going to happen to me?' he asked quietly. 'My dad doesn't like me. I'm never going home again.Teenager Carl arrives on foster carer Maggie Hartley's doorstep following a terrible row with his father. Quiet,...
Editeur :
Seven Dials
Parution :
2021-03-11
Collection :
A Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story
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Joni and Rebecca Schwartz in their collaborative autoethnography, Learning to Disclose: A Journey of Transracial Adoption, are doing soul work. This adult white mother and black daughter reflect and dialogue around the places and histories that shaped their...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2020-12-23
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A GARDA,A FORCED ADOPTION,A FIGHT FOR JUSTICEIn 1984, Majella Moynihan was a fresh-faced young garda recruit when she gave birth to a baby boy. Charged with breaching An Garda Síochána's disciplinary rules - for having premarital sex with another guard, becoming...
Editeur :
Hachette Books Ireland
Parution :
2020-09-03
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Natalie Gwyn uses humor to brilliantly capture how God led and helped this mother of two to adopt four children from Ethiopia and successfully bond her blended family.A happy, working wife, already birth mother of two healthy young children -- a boy and a girl --...
Editeur :
FaithWords
Parution :
2018-06-26
ePub
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Despite many well-intentioned efforts to create, revise, reform, and establish an effective child welfare system in the United States, the system continues to fail to ensure the safety and well-being of maltreated children. Out of Harm's Way explores the following four...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2017-02-01
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When Orla is handed an envelope by her father, she is perplexed by what she finds - a photograph of her parents, taken the summer she was born. Her heavily expectant mother, unusually, is smiling. Between her parents stands a teenage boy, her mother's arm lovingly...
Editeur :
Hachette Books Ireland
Parution :
2015-08-06
ePub
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It seemed like any other day, until she spotted it: a white envelope, addressed to her in unfamiliar handwriting. Sandra is afraid to read what's inside, knowing that its contents will expose the secrets she's kept buried for years - and memories of the time when her...
Editeur :
Hachette Books Ireland
Parution :
2015-07-02
ePub
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A FISH SUPPER ANDA CHIPPY SMILE can either be read as full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 3 OF 3.'Oi, Hilda, the sign outside says you're frying today but I ain't seeing nothing done in ere!' The voice cut through my daydream, startling...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2015-07-02
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A FISH SUPPER ANDA CHIPPY SMILE can either be read as full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 2 OF 3.'Oi, Hilda, the sign outside says you're frying today but I ain't seeing nothing done in ere!' The voice cut through my daydream, startling...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2015-07-02
ePub
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A FISH SUPPER ANDA CHIPPY SMILE can either be read as full-length eBook or in 3 serialised eBook-only parts.This is PART 1 OF 3.'Oi, Hilda, the sign outside says you're frying today but I ain't seeing nothing done in ere!' The voice cut through my daydream, startling...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2015-07-02
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'This is a beautifully written story. Of healing and love - and pain. Reading this book is like sitting in front of Kari, listening to her opening her heart to you' Irish TimesKari Rosvall's early life was shrouded in mystery until, at age 64, she received a letter...
Editeur :
Hachette Books Ireland
Parution :
2015-04-02
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'We ain't got no drink, Pa.' I trembled as I spoke. Then somewhere inside me I found the anger, the courage to answer him back.'We don't have no grog cos you drank it all!'I knew he was going for me tonight, so I reckoned I might as well go down fighting after...
Editeur :
Orion
Parution :
2015-02-26
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In 1964, in a bare room in Waterloo, a young actress gave her baby for adoption.They were to be parted for more than twenty years.The actress was Pauline Collins.The baby was her daughter Louise.Letter to Louise is a poignant, yet often funny, memoir of the months...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2012-06-30
ePub
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From the moment he was born, Andrew Bridge and his mother Hope shared a love so deep that it felt like nothing else mattered. Trapped in desperate poverty and confronted with unthinkable tragedies, all Andrew ever wanted was to be with his mom. But as her mental health...
Editeur :
Grand Central Publishing
Parution :
2008-02-05
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A powerful, intimate memoir of Eritrean-British journalist, Hannah Azieb-Pool, who returns to Eritrea at the age of 30 to meet her family for the first time.What a story. So vivid, honest and moving' Andrea Levy, author of Small Island'When I stepped off the plane in...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2006-07-27
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Since 1989, American families have adopted more than 230,000 children from other countries. Many of these children have lived in crowded conditions, sometimes with poor standards of hygiene, inadequate nutrition, and limited numbers of caregivers. Some suffer from...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2004-12-16
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