The Box in the Closet: My Journey to Claim Who I Am (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781426990014)

This powerful and unusual story contrasts The Bicknells, a wealthy and influential family in Rosedale, Toronto, Ontario, into which I was born out of wedlock, with a farm couple from near Brockville, Ontario who adopted me in 1935. At the age of sixteen I began to feel unsettled and lost. Eighteen years later I finally acted on that feeling and began the search for my lost parents. Using documents I found in a box in the closet of my adoptive mother after her death, I have retrieved the moment when a sleek limousine emerged from the dust of a gravel road delivering me to my new parents. The book follows that limousine back as I searched for my birth mother, taking me into mystery, intrigue and cover-up by the legal system but bringing me finally to a supper dance in the Crystal Ballroom of the historic King Edward Hotel in Toronto, where by chance, my birth parents were reunited. The memoir is a story of loss and recovery but it is also a story of love, strength and redemption

Author: Margaret Singleton
ISBN-10: 1426990014
ISBN-13: 9781426990014
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Language: English
Published: 09/21/2011
Pages: 292
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.14lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.81d