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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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How to get ahead: Gail Rebuck

Gail Rebuck: “Never be afraid to say what you think; always have an opinion. Be prepared to fail, but learn from your mistakes. And always do more than is asked of you.”
[quote from ‘Grazia’ magazine January 18, 2010]

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Excellent advice from Dame Gail Rebuck, chairman of Random House UK. Now in charge of strategy, Rebuck had been chairman and chief executive running the day-to-day business, from 1991-2013, so there is nothing she doesn’t know about book publishing. Drill down, and the advice is the same as the other successful businesswomen in the ‘How to Get Ahead’ series: be yourself, work hard, learn from those around you, and be prepared to sell your idea.

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Click here to read an article in The Guardian about how the UK publishing world lost key women leaders, including Rebuck, in a matter of weeks in 2013.

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