How I Met My Son: A Journey Through Adoption

by Rosalind Powell

Overview

When journalist Rosalind Powell and her husband wanted to start a family, they had no idea of the journey that lay ahead. Encountering fertility issues and gruelling IVF treatment to no avail, but still determined to be parents, they set off on the adoption route. After many false starts and dashed hopes they eventually, and luckily, found their son. How I Met My Son is more than a memoir, it is an invaluable guide to the reality of adoption in the UK. Both joyful and heartbreaking, the path to becoming a parent is laid bare. The story explores the sadness of infertility, the rigours of IVF, the minefield of social services, the intensity of the assessment process, the difficulties of choosing a child (and being chosen) and the happiness and shock of finally bringing that child home. A candid, compelling and inspirational book about what it means to be a parent of a child that isn't, biologically, your own.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781910536568
Publisher:	Blink Publishing
Publication date:	02/11/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	272
File size:	344 KB

About the Author

Rosalind Powell is a journalist who has written for a wide selection of newspapers including The Observer, The Independent, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, and The Mirror as well as magazines such as Red, Grazia, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan and Hello!, for which she has interviewed everyone from Claudia Schiffer and Leona Lewis, to Gordon Ramsay and John Simpson. She has written on a broad range of subjects from the serious - adoption and domestic violence, IVF, maternal health and addiction - to the frivolous - pet cloning, striptease, tango and the Oscars. She has travelled widely for her work, but is mainly based in Peckham.