A powerful, intimate memoir of Eritrean-British journalist, Hannah Azieb-Pool, who returns to Eritrea at the age of 30 to meet her family for the first time.
This is the inspiring story of how one mother and her family had a positive impact on more than four hundred children over their twenty-five years of fostering.
Inspired by a couple who had just adopted twins from Russia, a sixty-five year old single woman, from French-speaking Quebec Province, Canada, who immigrated to the United States in the mid 1970s, embarks on a bold and most challenging adventure to adopt two children from Siberia, a girl thirteen and her brother nine-and-one-half.
Ive written this book for two reasons; first because my story is different and I thought it would be of interest to my readers, and second, as a therapeutic tool for myself, recollecting memories of my past and the significance each event has had for me in coming to terms with my story.
Written by an adoptive mother and an adoptee daughter, Before You Were Mine offers a unique Christian perspective on creating a Lifebook that commemorates your child's birth story.
'I think this is one of the best books I have read by Maggie Hartley' Amazon reader reviewTHE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER and perfect for fans of Cathy Glass, a new powerful true story from Maggie Hartley, foster carer for over 20 years.
