Brother & Sister - Joanna Trollope

This is a story which shows a little insight in how two children were adopted by a couple who were not able to have any children of their own. So they adopted David and Nathalie, both had different birth mothers. As you read into the book one will find on the surface a normal family and it tells us that Nathalie is living with her partner Steve and unmarried and has a daughter who's name Polly. Her brother is David and is married to Marnie and has three children, he is very happy and runs his own business as a Landscape Gardener. The everything seems to change for them all when Polly had to have surgery on her ear. Nathalie started to ...

David and Nathalie and are the children of Lynne and Ralph. You wouldn't find a closer brother and sister anywhere – except that they're not really siblings. This is because Lynne and Ralph adopted them. This fact was never a secret, and all their lives both David and Nathalie believed that it made no difference to them. They've grown up healthy, loved and become well-adjusted adults and are both in good relationships – happily married and with children of their own. But when Nathalie is interviewed about how being adopted effected her life, although initially she denies that it made any difference to her, she suddenly discovers a need to find her birth parents, and ...