Book description
Wanted:Home for baby boy, aged 1 month, complete surrender. In late
1942, that advert was placed in the Reading Mercury. 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, never knowing the full story of his parentage. But a
chance discovery some sixty years later was to set him on a quest to
uncover the truth behind his mysterious abandonment. This search would
lead to 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 he never knew he had,
world-famous novelist Ian McEwan, but the two men were to discover a
shared history and a relationship closer than they could ever have imagined.
