Complete Surrender - The True Story of a Family's Dark Secret and the Brothers it Tore Apart at Birth (Paperback)

Dave Sharp

ISBN 10: 1844547671 / ISBN 13: 9781844547678

Published by John Blake Publishing Ltd, London, 2009

About this Item

Paperback. Wanted:Home for baby boy, aged 1 month, complete surrender. In late 1942, that advert was placed in the Reading Mercury. Two weeks later, on the deserted platform of Reading railway station, a young couple who had read the advert were to fleetingly meet the mother of this baby boy as she passed the child over to them. The reasons for the surrender of her child were never explained. The boy, Dave Sharp, grew up happily, never knowing the full story of his parentage. But a chance discovery some sixty years later was to set him on a quest to uncover the truth behind his mysterious abandonment. This search would lead to shocking and uncomfortable revelations, both for Dave and for the family that he discovered. Not only was Dave, a bricklayer by trade, to be united with the brother he never knew he had, world-famous novelist Ian McEwan, but the two men were to discover a shared history and a relationship closer than they could ever have imagined. With a foreword by Ian McEwan, this book tells the moving story of Dave's search for the family that had given him up, and the astonishing secrets that lay behind his biological parents' 'complete surrender' of him. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Complete Surrender - The True Story of a Family's Dark Secret and the Brothers it Tore Apart at Birth (Paperback)
• Publisher: John Blake Publishing Ltd, London
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1844547671
• ISBN 13: 9781844547678
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

Dave Sharp grew up with foster parents with no information about his actual parents. He lived his life happily as a bricklayer and grew up and honest man who loved soccer. In his 60s, he set about the long and arduous process of trying to find out who his real parents were. After much searching he discovered the family who had given him up for adoption and met up with them. He also scheduled to meet with the man he believed to be his half-brother; this man, it turned out, was the noted novelist Ian McEwan, author of Atonement and On Chesil Beach. A shocking revelation concerning a family affair that had long lain hidden was soon unearthed, and Dave learned that Ian was in fact his full brother. This is the amazing and heartwarming story of a son’s wish to find his family, and two men gaining the brother that they had always wished for.

About the Author

Dave Sharp is a bricklayer by trade and a life-long supporter of his beloved Reading FC. This is his first book. Ian McEwan is one of the world's best loved living writers, the critically acclaimed author of many books including The Cement Garden, The Child in Tim, Enduring Love, and On Chesil Beach. His novel Atonement has recently been adapted as a major motion picture.