- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Vermilion (13 Jan 2005)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0091901790
- ISBN-13: 978-0091901790
- Product Dimensions: 21.8 x 13.8 x 3.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 442,298 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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.
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A moving memoir of one woman's search for her birth mother, with a fascinating history of adoption in the UK weaved throughout
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Love Child - a moving and inspiring journey of discovery,
By Sarah Wenban (Suffolk, England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Love Child: A Memoir of Adoption and Reunion, Loss and Love (Hardcover)
Sue Elliott's odyssey to discover her birth mother, leads her into much more than she bargained for. But this is not just a personal and emotional journey, Sue's story is skilfully interwoven with a fascinating and at times disturbing social history of adoption, and with the personal testimonies of many women who had to give up their babies for adoption against their will. It's hard to stay dry-eyed as the enormity of the impact on so many lives - the birth mothers, the adoptee parents and the adopted children - is explored with great sensitivity and understanding. The moving and colourful story of Sue's own adoption and reunion with her birth mother is told with frankness, warmth and humour. It will resonate with anyone involved in adoption and surprise others with aspects of adoption to which most of us have given little thought.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Read the first few lines and you`ll be hooked,
By A Customer
This review is from: Love Child: A Memoir of Adoption and Reunion, Loss and Love (Hardcover)
An extremely passionately and movingly written book that accompanies the TV series that went out on ITV during January. Anyone who has been adopted should read this as the author, Sue Elliott, not only tells a fascinating tale of how adoption has changed since the late 1800`s but she also cleverly weaves a true story about her adoption into the narrative. The author has done herself and her contributors proud. If you read just one book this year, this should be it.....
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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A fascinating story, superbly told,
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This review is from: Love Child (Paperback)
A delight -- full of good qualities and good things. The stories Sue Elliott has to tell are utterly absorbing. The way she intertwines her personal story with social history is beautifully judged, and both strands are equally rewarding to read. On the personal side, this is a great story, told with wit and wisdom, and with a good eye for the chapter-end cliff-hanger. And on the social-history side, ‘Love Child’ gives a fascinating introduction to the legal, social, and moral complexities which shaped the history of adoption across the 20th century.
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