Blue-Eyed Son; The Story of an Adoption

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9780330433068
• ISBN10: 0330433067
• Format: Trade Paper
• Copyright: 2005-07-01
• Publisher: Macmillan UK

Summary

Nicky Campbell, the Radio 5 Live and BBC1 Watchdog presenter, was adopted as a baby into a comfortable Protestant Scottish family. He always knew he was adopted, but didn't begin searching for his birth mother until he was in his thirties. When he found her, what she told him came as a shock. The clash of cultures, creed, and ideology between his parent's world and the world he grew up in couldn't be more striking. In this refreshingly candid book, he tells the story of his journey to find his parents, the dark secrets that have been revealed, and the journey he had to make after finding them.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	xv
Introduction November 1990	1	(6)
A Proper Mummy and Daddy	7	(7)
Edinburgh Boy	14	(13)
Blue-Eyed Son	27	(4)
Talking to Stella	31	(6)
The Trip to Dublin	37	(8)
Evening is Falling	45	(7)
The Slough of Despond	52	(12)
Big Enders/Little Enders	64	(14)
Something Good	78	(9)
When Nicky Met Esther	87	(18)
A Long Time Coming	105	(7)
Two of Us	112	(12)
There's a Message on the Answerphone	124	(15)
All My Sons	139	(16)
Something Wonderful	155	(12)
The Dancing Detective	167	(21)
Joseph and Stella	188	(14)
The Bones of the Past	202	(24)
The Vault	226	(20)
Three Armies, Three Funerals	246	(16)
The Forest	262	(19)
Opening the Vault	281	(20)
Return to the Emerald City	301	(16)
Too Much Crazy	317	(25)
Postscript St Thomas' Hospital, London, 27 March 2004	342