{"product_id":"love-child-9780091947644","title":"Love Child","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdoption 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis is the heart-warming true story of a little girl''s adoption in the 1950s and her search, nearly forty years later, for her birth mother. When mother and daughter meet, Sue thinks she has finally reached the end of her journey. Then Sue discovers she wasn''t the only baby her mother gave away ...\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWeaved 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 fat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis true story of loss, guilt, identity, family feuds, reunion and redemption is one that will move all who read it * The Sun *\u003cbr\u003ea compelling and enlightening read * Junior *\u003cbr\u003eEnthralling and informative * Woman and Home *\u003cbr\u003eA book of family secrets, thwarted love and unexpected reunions ... A marvellous book. -- Bernard Cornwell\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ebury Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51017509667159,"sku":"9780091947644","price":14.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780091947644.jpg?v=1750773783","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/love-child-9780091947644","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}