The Box in the Closet

My Journey to Claim Who I Am

von Margaret Singleton

292 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

This powerful and unusual story contrasts The Bicknells, a wealthy and influential family in Rosedale, Toronto, Ontario, into which I was born out of wedlock, with a farm couple from near Brockville, Ontario who adopted me in 1935. At the age of sixteen I began to feel unsettled and lost. Eighteen years later I finally acted on that feeling and began the search for my lost parents.Using documents I found in a box in the closet of my adoptive mother after her death, I have retrieved the moment when a sleek limousine emerged from the dust of a gravel road delivering me to my new parents.The book follows that limousine back as I searched for my birth mother, taking me into mystery, intrigue and cover-up by the legal system but bringing me finally to a supper dance in the Crystal Ballroom of the historic King Edward Hotel in Toronto, where by chance, my birth parents were reunited.The memoir is a story of loss and recovery but it is also a story of love, strength and redemption

• Themen: Biographie, Literatur und Literaturwissenschaft Biografien und Sachliteratur Allgemein
• ISBN: 9781426990007
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 21.09.2011
• Größe: 216 x 140 mm
• Verlag: Trafford Publishing