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Resources: Review - A compelling history of adoption

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"Finding you is the best thing I've done in my life." Sue Elliott'swords to her dying birth mother sum up the barely contained emotion inthis beautifully crafted book about being adopted in the UK in 1951 andtrying to come to terms with it ever since.

The experience of being adopted, knowing nothing about your birthparents throughout your childhood, then searching for them as an adult,finally to be reunited, is now a well-trodden path. I've been down ittoo. This book buzzes with lost and found stories, yet it has enoughtheory and comment to interest professionals as well as all of us wholive all our lives inside the adoption triangle.

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