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No Biking in the House Without a Helmet

By Melissa Fay Greene

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

By Helen Edwards, Jenny Lee Smith

Oranges and Sunshine

By Margaret Humphreys

Blue-Eyed Son: The Story of an Adoption

By Nicky Campbell

Lion: A Long Way Home

By Saroo Brierley

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

By Kirsty Capes

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

By Thomas, David

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

How I Met My Son: A Journey Through Adoption

By Rosalind Powell

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

By Casey Watson

More Than Just a Coincidence (My Story)

By Julie Wassmer

Adoption Support Services for Families in Difficulty: A Literature Review and UK Survey

By Alan Rushton, Cherilyn Dance

The Boy Between: An expertly crafted, suspenseful story of family secrets and one fateful summer

By Susan Stairs

Featherhood: 'The best piece of nature writing since H is for Hawk, and the most powerful work of biography I have read in years' Neil Gaiman

By Charlie Gilmour

Intercountry Adoption: Developments, Trends and Perspectives

By Peter Selman

Hannah's Choice: A daughter's love for life. The mother who let her make the hardest decision of all.

By Kirsty Jones, Hannah Jones

The Speckled People

By Hamilton, Hugo

Love or Duty: An absorbing saga of heartache and family in 1920s Liverpool

By Rosie Harris

Little Fires Everywhere: The New York Times Top Ten Bestseller: 'Outstanding' Matt Haig

By Celeste Ng

Why Can't My Child Behave?: Empathic Parenting Strategies that Work for Adoptive and Foster Families

By Dr Amber Elliott

Improving Sensory Processing in Traumatized Children: Practical Ideas to Help Your Child's Movement, Coordination and Body Awareness

By Sarah Lloyd

Listening to Children's Wishes and Feelings Course Handbook

By Corrigan, Mary, Moore, Joan

A Short Introduction to Attachment and Attachment Disorder (JKP Short Introductions)

By Pearce, Colby

Too Afraid to Cry – Memoir of a Stolen Childhood

By Eckermann, Ali Cobby

Ghost Girl: The true story of a child in desperate peril – and a teacher who saved her

By Hayden, Torey

Twilight Children: Three Voices No One Heard – Until Someone Listened

By Hayden, Torey

Complete Surrender

By Dave Sharp

Watching the Tree: A Chinese Daughter Reflects on Happiness, Spiritual Beliefs and Universal Wisdom

By Yen Mah, Adeline

Facing Up to Facebook: A Survival Guide for Adoptive Families

By Eileen Fursland

Innocent: The True Story of Siblings Struggling to Survive

By Glass, Cathy