My Father's Daughter
Format: Paperback
ISBN:
9780141016047 (0141016043)
ASIN: 0141016043
Publish date: 2006
Publisher: Penguin
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Travel,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Literature,
Cultural,
Africa,
Parenting,
Biography Memoir,
Adoption,
21st Century
Around the time I visited Eritrea I read two books - one about an Eritrean refugee making the treacherous journey out of Eritrea and the other about Hannah Pool, a British journalist who was born in a remote village in Eritrea and adopted from an orphanage, leaving a family she had never met. They c...
This is a very readable and engaging memoir, about a British journalist’s trip to Eritrea to meet her birth family. As a baby, Hannah Pool was adopted from an orphanage by a white couple then working in Sudan. She grew up primarily in England, and had no contact with her birth family until age 29, w...