EAN: 9781529406368

BEFORE AND AFTER - LISA WINGATE JUDY CHRISTIE K...

The incredible and heart-breaking true stories of victims of a notorious adoption scandal -
inspired by No.1 bestselling novel Before We Were YoursFrom the 1920s to 1950  Georgia Tann ran
a corrupt baby business at the Tennessee Children's Home Society in Memphis. She offered up
more than 5 000 orphans tailored to the wish lists of eager parents - hiding the fact that many
weren't orphans at all  but stolen sons and daughters of poor families  desperate single
mothers  and women told in maternity wards that their babies had died.In Before and After  many
survivors set out to trace their roots and find their birth families. Before and AFter includes
moving and shocking accounts of the ways in which adoptees were separated from their first
families. Often raised as only children  many have joyfully reunited with siblings in the final
decades of their lives. There are stories of first meetings that are all the sweeter and more
intense for time missed  and of families from very different social backgrounds reaching out to
embrace brothers  sisters  and cousins. WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT BEFORE AND AFTER'What a
truly amazing book' *****'Riveting' *****'Captivating and emotional' *****'A real tear-jerker'
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