Although Emily Buchanan had a highly successful career in
broadcasting and a loving husband there was something missing from
her life: she desperately wanted children. After the trauma of
three miscarriages, Emily and her husband Gerald were forced to
accept the knowledge that they would not be able to have children
of their own and decided to look into adoption. Their desire to
have a very young baby led them to consider an adoption from
abroad. As a journalist Emily knew only too well the sad plight of
many children in the world trafficked to desperate couples and
determined that her child had to come from a country where adoption
was properly regulated.
In this touching story Emily describes their first meeting with
Jade Lin, who had been left on the steps of an orphanage in a small
town in Inner Mongolia just after she had been born. Unlike many of
the thousands of less fortunate babies abandoned each year in
China, Jade Lin had been placed with a foster family before being
approved for adoption and allocated to a family. It was love at
first sight for Emily and Gerald, but they still had obstacles of
language and culture to cross, as well as dealing with the reaction
of friends and family back at home. This diary tells in vivid
detail the highs and lows of Emily's journey to motherhood.
"extraordinarily brave and honest, and written with great
clarity. I can't remember reading anything on the subject that was
as open, ... or done with as much dignity. ...neither of us could
puit it down, and we were both very moved by it. "John Simpson"
"A delightful and candid account of a quest for much wanted
children." "Kate Adie"
"A factual and honest account of a mother's journey in adopting
two daughters from China." "Adeline Yen Mah"
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