So Many Ways to Begin

This book poses the question "what if" with its twists and turns of life pivoting on others’ decisions and the secrets they keep.

I love how the chapters are titled as random objects like "Small vase, handmade by unknown Warwickshire potter, 1974" or "Cut fragments of surgical thread, in small transparent case, dated July 1983." It reminds me of scavenging in charity shops and coming across an item with a personal history, like an old box of postcards with a stranger’s handwriting or a black and white wedding photograph from the 1950s.

As an adoptee (and writer), I am always… show more.