In this poignant book, the writer and investigative journalist Katharine
Quarmby describes the 20-year search for her Iranian birth father and
her own adoption history. She links this narrative to the wider story
that she uncovered during her search - of the many missing Iranian
military fathers, who disappeared after the Iranian Revolution, but who
are still sought by so many Iranian love-children in Britain today. Her
narrative is a meditation on the importance of both birth and adoptive
families - and a challenge to those who would set aside the importance
of race as a factor in adoption. She describes what it feels like to
search and discover your roots, in a moving story that takes her to Iran
undercover, on a secret visit - a visit that changes her forever. The
love of the parents who raised her gave her the courage to find her
birth father. This is her tribute to both her families.