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Adopting or Fostering a Sexually Abused Child

By Catherine MacAskill

More Than Just a Coincidence (My Story)

By Julie Wassmer

Skin Deep: All she wanted was a mummy, but was she too ugly to be loved?

By Casey Watson

How I Met My Son: A Journey Through Adoption

By Rosalind Powell

I Just Wanted to be Loved: A Boy Eager to Please. The Man Who Destroyed His Childhood. The Love That Overcame it.

By Howarth, Stuart

Tell Me Why, Mummy: A Little Boy’s Struggle to Survive. A Mother’s Shameful Secret. The Power to Forgive.

By Thomas, David

Careless: Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2022

By Kirsty Capes

Lion: A Long Way Home

By Saroo Brierley

Blue-Eyed Son: The Story of an Adoption

By Nicky Campbell

Oranges and Sunshine

By Margaret Humphreys

My Secret Sister: Jenny Lucas and Helen Edwards' family story

By Helen Edwards, Jenny Lee Smith

No Biking in the House Without a Helmet

By Melissa Fay Greene

The Throwaway Children

By Diney Costeloe

Joining New Families: A Study of Adoption and Fostering in Middle Childhood

By David Quinton, Alan Rushton, Cherilyn Dance, Deborah Mayes

Unwanted: The care system failed Lara. Will she fail her own child?

By Cathy Glass

Her Mother's Daughter: An absolutely gripping psychological thriller with a killer twist

By Jackie Walsh

A Life Lost: Jackson Is Haunted by a Secret from His Past

By Cathy Glass

Philomena (Movie Tie-In): A Mother, Her Son, and a Fifty-Year Search

By MARTIN SIXSMITH, Dame Judi Dench

Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth About Where I Belong

By Georgina Lawton

DAMAGED THE HEARTBREAK TRUE PB

By Cathy Glass

Fostering Now: Messages from Research

By Ian Sinclair

Flora and Grace: Poignant and uplifting bestseller from the Queen of Saga Writing

By Maureen Lee

A Fish Supper and a Chippy Smile: Love, Hardship and Laughter in a South East London Fish-and-Chip Shop

By Hilda Kemp, Cathryn Kemp

Adoption Now: 2013

By Fergus Smith, Roy Stewart, Alexandra Conroy Harris

Adoption Now: Messages from Research

By Roy Parker

Pregnancy and Parenthood: The views and experiences of young people in public care

By Christine McGuire, Judith Corlyon

Developing Adoption Support and Therapy: New Approaches for Practice

By Barry Luckock, Angie Hart

Birth Fathers and their Adoption Experiences

By Gary Clapton

Flora and Grace: Poignant and uplifting bestseller from the Queen of Saga Writing

By Maureen Lee

Foster Carers: Why They Stay and Why They Leave

By Kate Wilson, Ian Sinclair, Ian Gibbs