Tree of Strangers Poetry Box

Poetry Box

Collectively the book gives a picture of the breadth and depth of the relationship that is often overlooked

It’s a book that beckons the reader to return to it

Highly regarded historian Mark Derby tells the prison’s inside story with verve and compassion

’ — Tom Brooking

Tree of Strangers Poetry BoxA compelling memoir of adoption, loss and discovery I live at the end of a gravel road at the top of a valley consumed by bush. My husband is here, and my three girls. But the bush swallows them up like the road. I wrote those words at the kitchen table in 1983. A letter to the mother Id never met. But how do you convey your life in a few sentences when almost every memory is missing? Barbara Sumner grew up in a family filled with secrets and lies. At