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|pages=256
|publisher=Granta Books
|date=June 2007
|isbn=978-1862079304
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A M Homes was put up for adoption on the day that she was born. Thirty years later, her birth-mother initiated contact through a lawyer. Homes learned that she was the daughter of a young girl and her married lover - ''I am the product of a sex life, not a relationship''. Her mother, Ellen, turns out to be an obsessive, compulsive and needy woman. Her father, Norman, turns out to be a selfish, standoffish man who has no real intention of publicly acknowledging his new-found daughter. Homes quickly concludes that the best thing either of her biological parents could have done for her is give her up. This discovery, however, doesn't negate the hollowness, the emptiness, the neediness of being an adoptee and so she perseveres - by turns admitting Ellen, then running from her and trying - and failing - to win some intimacy from Norman.
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|comment= I read an excerpt in Observer or something and it annoyed the hell out of me. Less because of what she said (although on some level that too) and more because of the way she did, but then I tried to read another 2 things by her and I had the same reaction, so it must be me. I think you did it justice, though.
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|comment= I can see the constant evaluating would irritate some, but I think it's quite interesting!
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