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The Adoption - Hardcover

Berry, Anne

 
9780091949273: The Adoption
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0091949270 ISBN 13: 9780091949273
Verlag: Ebury Press (Fiction), 2012

Inhaltsangabe

'I was fourteen when my Mother said that she needed to speak to me... And then she told me - just like that. I was adopted.

And what I felt was not shock or grief but the most enormous sense of relief.'

Growing up as the only child of strict, God-fearing parents, Lucilla has always felt her difference. But it is not till adulthood that she discovers the real reasons behind her adopted mother's oft times violent indifference.

As for Harriet, she would have readily sent her longed for baby back if she could, having discovered she falls all too short of her expectations.

And then there is Bethan, a young girl in 1940s Wales, whose only mistake is falling in love with the wrong man...

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

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 career in theatre, playing everything from pantomime to Shakespeare. She now lives in Surrey with her husband and four children.She is the author of the critically acclaimed, award-winning novels, The Hungry Ghosts and The Water Children.

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Verlag
Ebury Press (Fiction)
Erscheinungsdatum
2012
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0091949270
ISBN 13 
9780091949273
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
400
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Verantwortliche Person
Nachyta Pederzini
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