Love Child - Hardcover

Elliot, Sue

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0091901790 ISBN 13: 9780091901790

Verlag: Vermilion, 2005

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Reseña del editor:

Adoption is one of the great, untold stories of our recent past. It is a truly epic tale of loss, guilt, identity, family feuds, reunion and redemption. It is a subject, until very recently, surrounded by secrecy and taboos. In this enthralling memoir, Sue Elliot tells her own story of growing up as an adopted child. She details her emotional search for and meeting with her birth mother, Marjorie, the heartbreaking tale of how Marjorie came to give up Sue for adoption in 1950s England, and the shock of finding that she, Sue, wasn't the only child given away by Marjorie...Weaved throughout is the vivid, emotional history of adoption in the UK. Drawing on a wide range of intimate personal experiences, it outlines the forces that shaped 20th century adoption practice, from baby-farming, the stigma of illegitimacy, incest and the bastardy laws, to children taken by force, the Magdalene laundries, mass emigration schemes without parental consent, to modern day adoption practices, buying babies from abroad, sperm donor fathers and tearful reunions on Trisha.

Biografía del autor:

Sue Elliot is a television executive and speechwriter, whose writing appears regularly in national newspapers such as The Guardian. She has a special interest in social policy and adoption, and has sat on adoption boards. Steve Humphries is one of Britain's most popular and influential writers of 20th century social history books. He was a lecturer in modern history at Essex University, but since the mid-1980s has been a TV producer. He has authored/co-authored more than 20 social history books, many of them TV tie-ins and bestsellers.

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• Verlag: Vermilion
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0091901790
• ISBN 13: 9780091901790
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 320