The Reluctant Cuckoo David Squire and is vibrant with wildly

and is vibrant with wildly imaginative creatures

in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach - the lacuna - between truth and public presumption

After Astrid Strick - a widowed

Alon suddenly found he couldn't breathe

A simple lie leads to complicated truths in this big-hearted coming-of-age story of grief

The Reluctant Cuckoo David Squire and is vibrant with wildlyFor Hannah, born from Nandi, and adopted by Patrick and Fiona, it is not so easy to work out who she really is. Is she the privileged daughter of an upper middle class British couple or is she an unwanted South African child who needed an adoptive family? How can she reconcile these two personas, especially when she looks so different from her adoptive parents? In her questioning mind, she appears to be not white enough for Britain, but not black