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The cuckoo's child : a novel
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- ISBN: 9781927366301 (electronic bk.)
- ISBN: 1927366305 (electronic bk.)
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1 online resource - Publisher: [Victoria, British Columbia] : Brindle & Glass Publishing Ltd., [2014]
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| Subject: | Adopted children -- Fiction Missing children -- Fiction |
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Electronic resources
- Association of Canadian Publishers
In her forties, Livvy Alvarsson hopes to be a bone marrow donor for her much-loved younger brother, Stephen. Instead, she discovers she has no idea who she is. This is the second great loss she has suffered, for eleven years earlier her four-year-old son, Daniel, disappeared. Armed with a few clues from wartime England, she embarks on a search for her birth family.
The narrative takes the reader from small-town British Columbia to London, the English countryside, and back. It is a story about loss and grief, and secrets and guilt, but it is also about restoration and balance. As Livvy confides her story to her dying brother, she reveals not only an identity enriched by experience, but also the transcendent importance of family and love.
The Cuckooâs Child is a compelling and remarkable evocation of a womanâs search for her family history.
- Baker & Taylor
After a donor match test for her brother with leukemia reveals she is not her parents' biological child, Livvy embarks on a search for her birth family that leads her to clues about her son, who disappeared eleven years earlier. - Heritage Books
In her forties, Livvy Alvarsson hopes to be a bone marrow donor for her much-loved younger brother, Stephen. Instead, she discovers she has no idea who she is. This is the second great loss she has suffered, for eleven years earlier her four-year-old son, Daniel, disappeared. Armed with a few clues from wartime England, she embarks on a search for her birth family.
The narrative takes the reader from small-town British Columbia to London, the English countryside, and back. It is a story about loss and grief, and secrets and guilt, but it is also about restoration and balance. As Livvy confides her story to her dying brother, she reveals not only an identity enriched by experience, but also the transcendent importance of family and love.
The Cuckoo's Child is a compelling and remarkable evocation of a woman's search for her family history.
- Perseus PublishingIn her forties, Livvy Alvarsson hopes to be a bone marrow donor for her much-loved younger brother, Stephen. Instead, she discovers she has no idea who she is. This is the second great loss she has suffered, for eleven years earlier, her four-year-old son Daniel disappeared. Armed with a few clues from war-time England, she embarks on a search for her birth family. The narrative takes the reader from small-town British Columbia to London and the English countryside and back. It is a story about loss and grief, about secrets and guilt, but it is also about restoration and balance. As Livvy confides her story to her dying brother, she reveals not only an identity enriched by experience, but also the transcendent importance of family and love.
The Cuckooâs Child is a compelling and remarkable evocation of loss and longing and one womanâs search for her family history.
