Life lines : writing transcultural adoption The first critical study to explore narratives of transcultural adoption from contemporary Britain Ireland and America fictions films and memoirs made by those within the adoption triad or those concerned with the part and pain and possibilities of transcultural adoption. Introduction : transcultural adoption and adoptive being Secrets : Mike Leigh Andrea Levy Mei Ling Hopgood Histories : E.R. Braithwaite Toni Morrison Sebastian Barry Traces : Hannah Pool Buchi Emecheta Catherine McKinley Bearings : Barbara Kingsolver Caryl Phillips Jackie Kay Coda : Victoria Station 1969 2015.