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Switched at birth

What do you do when faced with an impossible choice?
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What do you mean? Megs gasped. Its impossible. Well I got the test results back and hes not the father. But its more complicated than that He was holding a sheet of paper in his hand, but seemed unable to articulate what was on it. Megs reached out for it: Let me read it then. And thats how I found out. Boom! It was like I had been stabbed ...I collapsed on the floor at the back of the shop. It was as if I had passed out from shock. Then I cried. I cried for the child I had and the child I didnt have. I knew without a shadow of a doubt my life had changed forever. In 1990 two South African mothers were faced with an impossible choice, one that no mother should ever have to make. Should they surrender the child they had lovingly raised in order to get back the baby they had given birth to? Megs Clinton-Parker and Sandy Dawkins chose nurture over nature, simply unable to give up their two-year-old sons who were switched at birth at an East Rand Hospital. Instead they decided to try to make their strange relationship work, although they lived in different cities, 500 km apart. And they decided to sue the South African state, whose negligence had altered the fates of two families forever. Robin Dawkins and Gavin Clinton-Parker grew up living each others lives, brothers-but-not-brothers, acutely aware that their mothers hearts were torn. Unable to escape the consequences of the swap, Robin decided at the age of 15 that it was time to claim what was rightfully his, adding a further twist to this bitter saga. Theirs is a story of how to live with the unliveable, and how some decisions can never be unmade.

Author Biography:

Jessica Pitchford, originally from the Eastern Cape, has been a journalist in Johannesburg since graduating from Rhodes University in the eighties. Her previous position as managing editor at Carte Blanche was a departure from a long career in reporting and producing for SABC news and current affairs. She now freelances for the current affairs show Checkpoint on ENCA.
Release date NZ
April 1st, 2016
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Illustrations
colour photos
Pages
174
Dimensions
155x230x11
ISBN-13
9781868426720
Product ID
25182196

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