Pages tagged “bookreview”

  • New e-book tells story of adoption, state care, donor conception and surrogacy in New Zealand

    by Dr Anne Else, MNZM Thousands of New Zealanders have had their lives profoundly affected by adoption. I am one of them: I was adopted at birth in 1945. The book I needed to read about adoption did not exist. So, in 1991 I published A Question of Adoption: Closed Stranger Adoption in New Zealand 1944–1974. This has now been completely updated, expanded, and republished online as a new e-book by Bridget Williams Books.

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    16 April 2023

  • Hope Has Two Beautiful Daughters - A Book Review

    Notes from Inside: A courageous woman’s experiences of domestic violence and mental illness A Book Review by Hilary Lapsley Anne Thurston has given us the gift of survivor experience in her memoir of domestic violence, mental illness and recovery. Her story covers many decades. The formative events and impressions of childhood. Marriage, children and life on the family farm as it pitches down from idyll to jeopardy. And then through her process of recovery, activated by courage, curiosity, self-analysis and...

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    18 October 2022