In Search of Adam

I read this a few days ago, and it made me cry. It is a book of quite extraordinary power and grace, and it hurts to read it. It is painful the way music is painful, the way growing up is painful, the way love is painful; it closes the throat, thumps you in the gut and - this is the power of the book - it stays in you, and stretches your soul taut, and afterwards, your heart beats harder and more strongly, because of what it has learned about love and loss and cruelty, and the price paid in innocence. It is something that I think as many people as possible should read, if they can bear it. Congratulations to the author Caroline Smailes, for the most affecting, and extraordinary book of the year so far.

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