description: Paul Arnott's candid memoir of the quest for his roots, touching on the wider social issues of the adoptive process.Paul Arnott has two very early memories. One is as a two-year-old having a bath in a hotel sink in Tenby; the other, a Bromley afternoon, when Mr and Mrs Arnott told Paul that 'his real Mummy and Daddy couldn't keep him' - &amp; that they had adopted him. Then, for 30 years, he barely gave his adoption a moment's thought - until the observation of the likeness between his son &amp; himself provoked a quest to find his own biological parents ... What he discovered was a near-complete family in Ireland - his parents had later married &amp; had four other children, lighting a candle in his name every day for 33 years.A GOOD LIKENESS weaves historical, political, religious &amp; psychological thought into a personal narrative of the hopes, 'what-ifs' &amp; discoveries of the author's quest. He talks to those of his parent's generation who did not yield to the pressure to abandon the illegitimate &amp; to the children with very different stories to tell, as well as priests &amp; politicians, newfound families &amp; the supportive or unreconciled adoptive relatives.
language: English
title: Good Likeness
titlecomplete: Good Likeness
ratings_count: 12
publisher: LITTLE, BROWN