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- - - Rose Haldane, journalist and identity detective, reunites the people lost through adoption. The stories you don’t see on television shows. The difficult cases. The people who cannot be found, who are thought lost forever. And each new challenge makes Rose re-live her own adoption story, each birth mother and father, adopted child, and adoptive parent she talks to, reminds her of her own birth mother Kate. Each book in the ‘Identity Detective’ series considers the viewpoint of one person trapped in this horrible dilemma. In the first book of the series, Ignoring Gravity, it is Rose’s experience we follow as an adult discovering she was adopted as a baby. Connectedness is the story of a birth mother, her hopes and anxieties, her guilt and fear, and her longing to see her baby again. Sweet Joy, the third novel, will tell the story of a foundling, a baby abandoned, and how the now elderly woman is desperate to know her story before it is too late. Who is Rose Haldane? Watch the Series Trailer…
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Famous writers, writing… Peter Carey

[photo: Flora Hanitijo for The Guardian]

Peter Carey on re-writing:

“If you ever read one of my books I hope you’ll think it looks so easy. In fact, I wrote those chapters 20 times over, and over, and over, and that if you want to write at a good level, you’ll have to do that too.”
It’s good to know that even double-Booker winners don’t get it right first time. So re-draft, re-draft, re-draft…

Read my review of Amnesia and the opening paragraphs of Jack Maggs and Illywhacker.

‘Illywhacker’ by Peter Carey [UK: Faber] Buy now

See these other famous people, reading & writing:-
Agatha Christie
Joseph Conrad
Benedict Cumberbatch

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