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Buy this book on-line ADIE**, KATE: : Nobody's Child. Who Are You When You Don't Know Your Past? [Author SIGNED copy.**]LONDON.HODDER & STOUGHTON,2005. ISBN 0340838000.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn,2nd imp. [Complete number line 2.So 1st edn,2nd imp.] FINE/FINE. No owner inscrptn,but author's neat handwritten black ink signature - without dedication - to title page and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean,matt montage'd colour photographs: author's portrait and a mixed row of boy and girl foundlings sat on a wall,to front panel of dw/dj,with author's blocked gilt name and white-lettered title,thumbnail detail of children's photograph and similar coloured lettering to spine/backstrip,rear panel with author's b/w photograph of her visiting an orphanage in Sarajevo,1992; with negligible shelf-wear,bumping,creasing to edges and corners - no nicks,tears or splits present.Top+fore-edges right and clean without blemish; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corner tips - appears unread apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, original plain black cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain,pale blue endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,author SIGNED,1st edn,2nd imp,ix-xpp+1- 324pp [paginated] includes author's inset (Turning Wheel: 'A revolving cradle or device to aid the anonymous abandonment of infants;),21 chapters,8pp b/w+colour photographs and b/w+ colour illustration reproductions in 1 block, between pp166/7,a list of useful addresses and picture credits.Plus [unpaginated] half-title, author SIGNED title page,a dedication,and acknowledgements.Author's 3rd publication following on from 'The Kindness of Strangers.' (Biography) and 'CORSETS AND CAMOUFLAGE',(NAVAL/MILITARY).
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WHAT'S YOUR NAME? WHERE WERE YOU BORN? WHAT IS YOUR DATE OF BIRTH?
Simple questions that we are asked throughout our lives - but what if you don't know the answers?
Kate Adie uncovers the extraordinary, moving and inspiring stories of foundlings - without mother or father,any knowledge of who they might be,or even a name to call their own.
With a curiosity inspired by her own circumstances as an adopted child,Kate shows how the most remarkable adults have survived the experience of abandonment. Their tales can be heart-rending,yet also truly inspiring.
From the sometimes well-meaning attempts of foundling hospitals to the nightmare of Russian orphanages,every era and country has had its own answers to the problem.Too often they have been either inadequate or cruel.And yet,as many of the stories here show,it is possible to rise above even this least promising beginning.How far the existing laws reflect old-fashioned views on protecting and helping foundlings is something Kate Adie questions strongly.
From every perspective Kate Adie brings us a personal,moving and fascinating insight into this toughest of childhood experiences - and shows what makes us who we really are.
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