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The Adoption
Anne Berry
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Description for The Adoption
paperback. 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. Num Pages: 400 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 200 x 130 x 25. Weight in Grams: 286. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear
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.
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of pages
400
Publisher
Ebury Publishing United Kingdom
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Number of Pages
400
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780091947057
SKU
KAK0009657
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Anne Berry
Anne Berry was born in London in 1956, then spent much of her infancy in Aden, before moving on to Hong Kong at the age of six, where she was educated. She worked for a short period as a journalist for the South China Morning Post, before returning to Britain. After completing a three-year acting course, she embarked on a ... Read more
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Heartwarming tale of motherhood and identity...[one of] this year's coolest must-reads
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