Blue-Eyed Son : The Story of an Adoption

by Unknown

• ISBN13: 9781405047180
• ISBN10: 1405047186
• Format: Trade Book
• Copyright: 2004-11-01
• 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,	xi
INTRODUCTION November 1990,	1	(6)
ONE A Proper Mummy and Daddy,	7	(7)
TWO Edinburgh Boy,	14	(13)
THREE Blue-Eyed Son,	27	(4)
FOUR Talking to Stella,	31	(6)
FIVE The Trip to Dublin,	37	(8)
SIX Evening is Falling,	45	(7)
SEVEN The Slough of Despond,	52	(12)
EIGHT Big Enders/Little Enders,	64	(14)
NINE Something Good,	78	(9)
TEN When Nicky Met Esther,	87	(18)
ELEVEN A Long Time Coming,	105	(7)
TWELVE Two of Us,	112	(12)
THIRTEEN There's a Message on the Answerphone,	124	(15)
FOURTEEN All My Sons,	139	(16)
FIFTEEN Something Wonderful,	155	(12)
SIXTEEN The Dancing Detective,	167	(21)
SEVENTEEN Joseph and Stella,	188	(14)
EIGHTEEN The Bones of the Past,	202	(24)
NINETEEN The Vault,	226	(20)
TWENTY Three Armies, Three Funerals,	246	(16)
TWENTY-ONE The Forest,	262	(19)
TWENTY-TWO Opening the Vault,	281	(20)
TWENTY-THREE Return to the Emerald City,	301	(16)
TWENTY-FOUR Too Much Crazy,	317	(25)
POSTSCRIPT St Thomas' Hospital, London, 27 March 2004,	342