The boy from the sea
£16.99Incredibly moving and warm, The Boy from the Sea is a love story: of a family, a town, and a boy whose arrival changes everything. For fans of Kate Atkinson, Claire Keegan and Jon McGregor.
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Ootlin
£16.99The government told a story about me before I was born. Jenni Fagan was property of the state before birth. She drew her first breath in care and by the age of seven, she had lived in fourteen different homes and had changed name multiple times. Twenty years after her first attempt to write this powerful memoir, Jenni is finally ready to share her account. ‘Ootlin’ is a journey through the broken UK care system – it is one of displacement and exclusion, but also of the power of storytelling. It is about the very human act of making meaning from adversity.
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Hope Nicely’s Lessons for Life
£8.99I don’t have any friends, only dog ones, because they don’t make you do bad things. I don’t want any human friends, actually. It’s for the best.’ Hope Nicely hasn’t had an easy life. But she’s happy enough living at 23 Station Close with her mum, Jenny Nicely, and she loves her job, walking other people’s dogs. She’s a bit different, but as Jenny always tells her, she’s a rainbow person, a special drop of light. It’s just – there’s something she needs to know. Why did her birth mother abandon her in a cardboard box on a church step twenty-five years ago? And did she know that drinking while pregnant could lead to Hope being born with Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorder? In a bid to find her birth mother and the answers to these questions, Hope decides to write her autobiography.
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No Matter What
£9.99No Matter What is the uplifting true story of an ordinary couple’s journey from a diagnosis of infertility to their decision to adopt two children who suffered abuse in their early life. By turns heart-rending, inspiring and hilarious, Sally and Rob’s story offers a rare insight into the world of adoptive parents.