Unspoken : the silent truth behind my lifelong trauma as a forced adoptee
Harvie, Liz2023
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In 1974, Liz Harvie - born Claire Elaine Watts - was given up for adoption by her birth mother Yvonne. Claire was just eight weeks old when her adoptive parents took her in - and renamed her Elizabeth. Although brought up in a 'perfect' household, the emotional - and physical - trauma of being taken from her biological mother would never leave Liz. She constantly wondered: what does my real mum look like? Will she come back for me? Why did she abandon me? But whenever Liz voiced such questions, she invariably received the same response: 'Your birth parents were not married. They couldn't look after you'. Years later, aged twenty-eight, Liz reconnected with her birth mother - and finally learned the shocking truth surrounding her adoption.
Main title:
Unspoken : the silent truth behind my lifelong trauma as a forced adoptee / Liz Harvie, Eve Hatton.
Author:
Harvie, Liz, authorHatton, Eve, author
Imprint:
London : Mardle Books, 2023.
Collation:
240 pages ; 20 cm.
Series title:
Stolen lives ; 2.
ISBN:
9781837700462 (pbk)
Dewey class:
362.734092362.734 HARV362.734920 HARB HAR362.73409
LC class:
HV874.82
Local class:
B HAR362.73409
Language:
English
BRN:
3650332
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