Complete Surrender - Hardcover

Sharp, Dave

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1844545822 ISBN 13: 9781844545827

Publisher: John Blake Publishing Ltd, 2008

Synopsis

In late 1942, a brief advert was placed in the "Reading Mercury", a newspaper for the local area, reading: 'Wanted: Home for Baby Boy, Age 1 Month; Complete Surrender'. Two weeks later, on the deserted platform of Reading railway station, a young couple who had read the advert were to fleetingly meet the mother of this baby boy as she passed the child over to them.The reasons for the surrender of her child were never explained. The boy, Dave Sharp, grew up happily with his adoptive parents, the light of their eyes, never knowing the full story of his parentage. A chance discovery some sixty years later was to set him on a quest to uncover the truth behind his mysterious abandonment. The search was not to be easy, nor was it to prove without shocking and uncomfortable revelations, both for Dave and for the family that he discovered. Not only was Dave, a bricklayer by trade, to be united with the brother that he had never had, world-famous novelist Ian McEwan, but the two men were to discover a shared history and relationship closer than they could ever have imagined.With a foreword by Ian McEwan, this book tells the moving, and by turns funny, story of Dave's search for the family that had given him up and the astonishing secrets that lay behind his adoption.

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About the Author

Ian McEwan is one of the world's best loved living writers, the critically acclaimed author of many books including The Cement Garden (1978), The Child in Time (1987), Enduring Love (1997), and, most recently, On Chesil Beach. His novel Atonement has recently been adapted as a major motion picture starring Keira Knightley and James MacAvoy. Dave Sharp is a bricklayer by trade and a life-long supporter of his beloved Reading FC. This is his first book.

Edition details

• Publisher: John Blake Publishing Ltd
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844545822
• ISBN 13: 9781844545827
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 286