Description
Book SynopsisAlthough Emily Buchanan had a highly successful career in broadcasting and a loving husband there was something missing from her life: she desperately wanted children. After the trauma of three miscarriages, Emily and her husband Gerald were forced to accept the knowledge that they would not be able to have children of their own and decided to look into adoption. Their desire to have a very young baby led them to consider an adoption from abroad. As a journalist Emily knew only too well the sad plight of many children in the world trafficked to desperate couples and determined that her child had to come from a country where adoption was properly regulated.
In this touching story Emily describes their first meeting with Jade Lin, who had been left on the steps of an orphanage in a small town in Inner Mongolia just after she had been born. Unlike many of the thousands of less fortunate babies abandoned each year in China, Jade Lin had been placed with a foster family before being app
Trade Review
Was 'Critic's Choice' in the Daily Mail on Friday June 24th, "...Buchanan's book is much more than a story with a happy ending "...Interspersed between adoption details are vivid depictions of China and Chinese culture..."
"...a moving examination of the need to parent..." (Bolton Evening News, July 05)
"...Emily Buchanan's story is inspiring. It is funny, honest and extremely readable." (The Tablet, 30th July 2005)
"Emily Buchanan has provided not only a reasonable account of adoption and the hugely important issue of the world's unwanted children, but also a life-affirming, immensely brave response to the inability to conceive naturally..." (The Catholic Herald, 12th Aug 05)
"...a refreshing change from the cloying sentimentality of many East-meets-West accounts..." (Her World, Sept 2005)
"...a brave and honest account..." (Today's Parents, Oct 05)
Table of Contents1. A Tunnel at the End of the Light.
2. The Long March to Motherhood.
3. Chinese Revelations.
4. Journey to Jade.
5. Practice Makes Parent.
6. Little Dragon, Little Horse.
7. From Nanchang to Notting Hill.
