The Adoption

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Pub Date 28 Feb 2013 | Archive Date 17 Feb 2013
Ebury Publishing | Ebury Press (Fiction)

Description

Barefoot, I pick my way across the rough floorboards to where a drawer lined with a quilt serves as a crib. Kneeling as if at chapel, I gaze down at my babe in her makeshift manger.

I must not touch her. When I look I must not touch. When I touch I must not look. In this way Mam says no bond will form.

Having fallen pregnant to a German POW, a young woman gives up her child for adoption. Years later, after a loveless childhood, her daughter will finally discover the secrets of her birth.

Barefoot, I pick my way across the rough floorboards to where a drawer lined with a quilt serves as a crib. Kneeling as if at chapel, I gaze down at my babe in her makeshift manger.

I must not...


Available Editions

EDITION Paperback
ISBN 9780091947057
PRICE £6.99 (GBP)