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Synopsis
This is the moving story of an unusual family of three. A family that started out as a childless couple in England and, thousands of miles across the ocean, a baby whose Guatemalan birth mother was unable to provide for him.
It is the story of meeting insurmountable obstacles - both to having a baby of their own and to adopting domestically - where Dominic and Alex embark on a frustrating, lengthy, emotional but ultimately victorious journey on the road to intercountry adoption.
After considering a number of other countries with abandoned and relinquished children, they narrow their search to Guatemala in Central America. For convenience, they think of their future adoptive son as 'José', until such time as they learn the name of the little one to be handed over to them. Then one day a baby born to a young mother is indeed referred to them for adoption . . . and his name is José!
Was a child ever more longed for, fought for, or waited for with such huge anticipation? Alex Bemrose's candid account of the highs and lows - more lows than highs, she confesses - in her and Dominic's ultimately triumphant quest to bring little José home to England will leave you without much doubt!
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About the Author
Alex Bemrose was born in London and studied at Royal Holloway College, University of London, where she attained a BA Honours degree in History. She worked for four years in the ski industry, spending time living in the French Alps, followed by twenty-two years in corporate event management, running her own company for the last thirteen years, with clients in the financial sector including HSBC and Morgan Stanley. She closed the company after the arrival of her adopted son in order to be a full-time mother. She has also been involved in voluntary work for a spinal-injury organisation, The Back-Up Trust, and is currently involved with the Shooting Star Children's Hospice. She lives on the outskirts of London with her husband, Dominic, and their son, José.
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