num_pages: 368
description: Bestselling author Tish Cohen returns with a story of one womans love for her child and the courage it gives her to face her biggest fearAs the owner of the upscale childrens boutique Pretty Baby Eleanor Sweet is surrounded by gleaming strollers organic cotton onesies and roundbellied expectant mothers. Its a serene atmosphere of new beginningsbut for the graffiti-splattered record shop next door and Eleanors fierce desire for a baby of her own. Her wish is finally granted in the form of Sylvie an orphaned baby en route from earthquake-stricken Baja California. But when Eleanors husband unexpectedly gets cold feet and backs out her dream of adopting Sylvie is at risk.Adopted herself Eleanor has always been reluctant to search out her birth mother afraid of what she might find. But she is determined to save the adoption and to give Sylvie the family she deserves. Eleanor hires Isabelle a search angel to find her birth mother. What Eleanor discovers about love and family isnt what she expects but it gives her a new understanding of what it means to be a mother.
language: English
title: The Search Angel
publisher: HarperCollins Canada