Book Description
When journalist Mike and wife Sara decide to foster a 12-year-old Bosnian refugee, they have no premonition of the far-reaching consequences. Jasminka evolves from a traumatised child of the bitter ethnic conflicts of besieged Sarajevo into Minkie, an English schoolgirl-with-a-difference in a village in Middle England. She also becomes the daughter Mike has always wanted and Sara cannot have, and one of the excuses for Sara to resume an old affair.
Mike's assignments continue to take him to Bosnia and Serbia and he finds himself emotionally drawn into the conflict for reasons he could never have imagined and which have a profound effect on the deepening rift at home.
As shifting intenational tensions are about to change the world forever, Minkie returns to Sarajevo to seek her roots and decide her future, just as Mike and Sara must decide on theirs in these early days of September 2001
From the Author
During my forty years of visiting the former Yugoslavia, I became intimately acquainted with many parts of it and acquired friends in most of its regions. I learned a lot about its history and culture and thus what makes places and people what and who they are. The break-up of the country was deeply shocking though not, in the light of its history, incomprehensible.
I have always had a particularly soft spot for Sarajevo and have tried to see the break-up through the eyes of one of its children. For some years I had been involved in fostering a child from the Balkans at school in the UK, and witnessed the problems of a youngster with a foot in two cultural camps. How would a Sarajevan child, straight from the traumas of her besieged city, cope with such a cirumstance?
Another Kind of Loving is the story of ordinary people caught up in extraordinary events: of how the cause and effect of international events may be reflected in the lives of individuals, and in turn the ripple effect of their choices on those around them.
The lives of the younger characters of the book will be pursued in a sequel that follows them into the post-9/11 world.
