Moving In.

The distance between them and the distance yet to travel screams at Emma. She staggers onto the dimly-lit landing, closes her eyes on the sensations searing through her. Barefoot on the plush carpet, she pushes away the image of those black circles under Libby’s eyes, and she closes the door on the bravest person she has ever seen.

Confessions of an Adoptive Mother beautifully and candidly describes the shared losses of an infertile woman and her adopted daughter.

It is a moving memoir is told in a range of artistic styles from poetry, short story fiction, letters, monologue and poetic prose; a nuanced and compassionate story about a woman's ambivalence to motherhood, her altered relationship with her husband, and their beautiful and complex adopted child, Libby.

At once, beautiful, brave and heartbreaking; a journey of despair, fear, doubt, pain, joy and love.

'Written from the heart.' It's an emotional journey for the reader, heartbreaking and hopeful, as the questions of identity, nature versus nurture, roots, birth contact in the age of social media, the haunting ghosts of the past and the enduring power of love are raised with poignancy and lyricism.