Strays and Relations

The Five Hours and Four Decades of Dizzy Greenfield

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Pub Date 28 Feb 2018 | Archive Date 13 Apr 2018
General Fiction (Adult) | Women's Fiction

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Strays and Relations follows the story of Dizzy, whose search for her birth parents is sad, humorous, and in parts bizarre. Dizzy learns that she began life as a surviving twin, then was fostered until a permanent home was found. 

Dizzy begins her search for her original identity. Why was she given up for adoption in the 1960s? Following a tenuous lead, she travels to Ireland with her best friend Sugar, but the trail takes a misleading turn. It ends in what they mistakenly believe is Dizzy’s mother’s grave. 

Dizzy falls in love with Will, a blacksmith. But something is missing. Dizzy’s life changes when her birth father Tommy makes contact using a private detective. He reveals that her birth mother is alive and married to a man called Vernon. Now the bigger, trickier task lies ahead: working out how to fit the disparate bits of her life together. This is a book which will both amuse and touch readers’ hearts.

Strays and Relations manages sensitive subject matter with engaging wit and sharply-observed dialogue, and includes vivid descriptions of some rather unusual animals and people. It will appeal to readers who have encountered a recycled animal or family.

Strays and Relations follows the story of Dizzy, whose search for her birth parents is sad, humorous, and in parts bizarre. Dizzy learns that she began life as a surviving twin, then was fostered...

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A Note From the Publisher

Dizzy Greenfield has lived in the West Country all her life. She runs a blacksmiths’ forge with her partner Will. Her ideas come from humorous incidents in her own life, which she fictionalises. Strays and Relations is her first novel.

Dizzy Greenfield has lived in the West Country all her life. She runs a blacksmiths’ forge with her partner Will. Her ideas come from humorous incidents in her own life, which she fictionalises...

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Dizzy Greenfield is adopted and feels like she needs to know where her beginnings were and why her parents gave her up. She was fortunate to have great adoptive parents and loves them but just needs to put the past at rest. The journey takes time and has some unexpected turns but she manages to do it with humor as well as tears and some deep emotions in making her world work for her. She is fortunate to have Will who shows so much love and patience with her journey. There are many surprises and many relatives she never knew about until she meets her parents. In many ways she knows more about herself with having allowed herself to follow her curiosity. Sometimes it was scary but she always had Will and her Mum to back her up. Well worth the read.

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Dizzy did an amazing job of conveying the pros and cons of searching for one's birth parents in this memoir. Via Dizzy's honest writing, I was able to go along on her journey and could feel the emotions she was struggling with as she made decisions. Very well-written!

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