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This is the moving story of an unusual family of three. A family that started out as a childless couple in England and, thousands of miles across the ocean, a baby whose Guatemalan birth mother was unable to provide for him.
It is the story of meeting insurmountable obstacles - both to having a baby of their own and to adopting domestically - where Dominic and Alex embark on a frustrating, lengthy, emotional but ultimately victorious journey on the road to intercountry adoption.
After considering a number of other countries with abandoned and relinquished children, they narrow their search to Guatemala in Central America. For convenience, they think of their future adoptive son as 'José', until such time as they learn the name of the little one to be handed over to them. Then one day a baby born to a young mother is indeed referred to them for adoption . . . and his name is José!
Was a child ever more longed for, fought for, or waited for with such huge anticipation? Alex Bemrose's candid account of the highs and lows - more lows than highs, she confesses - in her and Dominic's ultimately triumphant quest to bring little José home to England will leave you without much doubt!
It is the story of meeting insurmountable obstacles - both to having a baby of their own and to adopting domestically - where Dominic and Alex embark on a frustrating, lengthy, emotional but ultimately victorious journey on the road to intercountry adoption.
After considering a number of other countries with abandoned and relinquished children, they narrow their search to Guatemala in Central America. For convenience, they think of their future adoptive son as 'José', until such time as they learn the name of the little one to be handed over to them. Then one day a baby born to a young mother is indeed referred to them for adoption . . . and his name is José!
Was a child ever more longed for, fought for, or waited for with such huge anticipation? Alex Bemrose's candid account of the highs and lows - more lows than highs, she confesses - in her and Dominic's ultimately triumphant quest to bring little José home to England will leave you without much doubt!
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Alex Bemrose was born in London and studied at Royal Holloway College, University of London, where she attained a BA Honours degree in History. She worked for four years in the ski industry, spending time living in the French Alps, followed by twenty-two years in corporate event management, running her own company for the last thirteen years, with clients in the financial sector including HSBC and Morgan Stanley. She closed the company after the arrival of her adopted son in order to be a full-time mother. She has also been involved in voluntary work for a spinal-injury organisation, The Back-Up Trust, and is currently involved with the Shooting Star Children's Hospice. She lives in the outskirts of London with her husband, Dominic, and their son, José.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
An excellent book, a real page turner. The book exposes some of the stupidity of the UK adoption system, the difficulties of inter country adoption and the enormous hurdles any prospective adoptive parent has to overcome. Only by sheer determination do Alex and Dom finally realise their dream of adopting a child. THis book is a must read for anyone contemplating adoption as it shows that adoption is not for the faint hearted.
Hopefully this book will result in some improvements in adoption law and procedures.
Hopefully this book will result in some improvements in adoption law and procedures.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
I really highly recommend that you read this book. Brilliantly well written and a great story. A real journey. The front cover of the book is really well done and attractive, and it is no surprise that the story held inside is just as good. With National Adoption week coming up, the publication of such a book is more pertinent than ever: the story of a normal couple's battle to adopt a child from Guatemala due to the UK adoption authorities' ridiculous rulings that white couples cannot adopt children of a different racial origin, despite the fact that there is a much larger percentage of white couples wanting to adopt than there is of any other ethnicity. This means that more and more children, whatever their ethnicity, are being deprived of a loving home by stony bureaucracy.
This story is about how far you are prepared to go to gain what you have always wanted - the simple pleasure of being able to bring up a child you can call your own. How much this hope can withstand the bludgeonings and blows of an adoption system seemingly determined to prevent the very process it is supposed to be facilitating will be revealed in the book.
*For those interested in travel in Central America, there is also a very interesting and informative chapter on travelling in Guatemala.
This story is about how far you are prepared to go to gain what you have always wanted - the simple pleasure of being able to bring up a child you can call your own. How much this hope can withstand the bludgeonings and blows of an adoption system seemingly determined to prevent the very process it is supposed to be facilitating will be revealed in the book.
*For those interested in travel in Central America, there is also a very interesting and informative chapter on travelling in Guatemala.
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
A truly eye-opening book which gives a great insight into the struggles of adoption in the UK, and no doubt many places in the world. I had no idea before reading this about the huge strength and emotional, mental and physical resources required to make it through the adoption process. The story fills you with admiration for those who have managed it. The author leads you through the saga with such honesty, openness and humour that you find yourself unable to put the book down. It's a real page-turner, I recommend it to anyone.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Well worth reading.....
A really good read - very well written. You don't need to be involved in the adoption process to get hooked in to the storyline. Read more
Published 18 months ago by AnnaB
Fabulous read
Knowing little about adoption I was interested in reading this story about the struggles a couple had in their long road to adoption having seen an article about the couple's... Read more
Published 19 months ago by EEB
Really enjoyed it - couldn't put it down
So enjoyed this book - so moving and so gripping as well. This is one of those gems that manages to be a personal account yet at the same time a general indictment of a major issue... Read more
Published 19 months ago by Joe101
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