Brother and Sister

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We all need to know where we come from where we belong. But for David and Nathalie this need to know is more urgent than for most people because they are adopted. Brought up by the same parents but born to different mothers they have grown up fiercely loyal to one another as brother and sister. Their decision in their late thirties to embark upon the journey to find their birth mothers is no straightforward matter. It affects acutely and often painfully their partners the people they work with and most poignantly the two women who gave them up for adoption all those years ago and who have since then made other lives even borne other children. Exploring her subject with inimitable imagination and humanity Joanna Trollope once again works her magic. In this rich narrative at once gritty and graceful she exposes the extraordinary challenges that arise at the heart of ordinary lives.