Trio

Acknowledgements

I was adopted as a baby and in the last few years I have been re-united with my Irish birth family, including seven full brothers and sisters. Of course, I have drawn on my own experience of adoption and that of my families and friends in writing the book, as well as using anecdotes, stories and accounts I have come across over the years – it would be impossible not to. But Trio is not my story: it is fiction not fact, the characters here are invented and their adventures imagined.

This book is dedicated with love to my parents: Evelyn and M.J. and Margaret and David. And with thanks to After Adoption in Manchester and NORCAP, who do so much to support people involved with adoption.

In 1960, thousands of babies were placed for adoption in the UK. This is the story of three of them…