Book description
‘
Blue-Eyed Son
is a personal history, but its themes - family, self-identity and
filial love - are universal’ Daily Mail
Raised in a comfortable middle-class home, Nicky Campbell’s Scottish
Protestant family cared and nurtured him as their own, while remaining
open about the fact he’d been adopted. His father - an ex-army man - and
his mother helped him to a good school and a good university. Nicky
rarely thought of his birth parents, until a combination of an imploding
marriage and a chance meeting with a private detective led him to track
his mother down. Nicky Campbell brilliantly recalls their reunion and
tentative steps towards a relationship, evoking all the complex and
deep-seated emotions that being reunited elicited in each of them. But
as they talked it became clear that there was more to Nicky’s background
than he expected. . .
In this emotionally gripping and refreshingly honest memoir, Nicky
Campbell describes the many sides of a family’s dark history, and how it
feels to find out where you come from. Nicky Campbell has been a radio
broadcaster since he graduated from Aberdeen University. He has worked
at London's Capital Radio, Radio 1 and, since 1997, has presented a
hugely popular show on Five Live. He is also a highly regarded
television presenter, having appeared on such diverse shows as Wheel
of Fortune
and Newsnight
, Top of the Pops
and Panorama
, and currently fronts BBC1's Watchdog
. He lives with his wife and three daughters in south London.
