Forever Family: A Story of Adoption

by John Houghton

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John Houghton and his wife - middle-class, highly educated, well-travelled - learned that they could not have children of their own. Instead they adopted three siblings, two boys and a girl, who were looking for 'a forever family', as the adoption agencies put it. What followed is all too common in adoptive families, but it is rarely talked about in public and has never been described with such transparent honesty as it is in the pages of this remarkable book. From the start, the children were difficult, but the scale of their problems only gradually became clear as the...Read more
  • ISBN13 9780571227785
  • Publish Date 18 May 2006
  • Publish Status Transferred
  • Out of Print 6 August 2016
  • Publish Country GB
  • Imprint Faber & Faber