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Shadow Baby 'A brilliant exploration of choice and consequence' Mail on
Sunday Parted from your mother at birth - would you want to find her again? Evie and shona, born some seventy years apart, have one thing in common: both were abandoned as babies. Evie, born in 1887, is left to make her own way in the world when her mother is offered the chance to better herself. Shona, born in 1956, has a happy childhood, but, like Evie, she desires that special love that she believes only a real mother can provide. Both mothers fear revelation, both daughters seek emotional recompense... 'An unfailingly intelligent novel, full of lucid observation of a phenomenon, mother-love, too often seen through a gilded haze of false feeling and wishful thinking...Forster is a fine storyteller' Sunday Times 'Enthralling...readers will plunge happily into the kind of family story for which Margaret Forster is celebrated and which she executes so well' Anita Brookner, Spectator 'Intricate, romantic and full of suspense' Observer 'Margaret Forster has the knack of choosing cracking good subjects for her fiction' Sunday Telegraph 'An excellently funny, moving novel...a text for our times' Auberon Waugh, Independent
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