TY - BOOK AU - McLeod,John TI - Life lines: writing transcultural adoption T2 - New horizons in contemporary writing SN - 1472590384 PY - 2015/// CY - London PB - Bloomsbury Academic, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc KW - Interracial adoption in literature KW - Intercountry adoption KW - English literature KW - History and criticism N1 - Includes bibliographical references : (pages 234-240) and index; 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 N2 - '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.' ER -