Joanna Pocock

Finder and keeper: two family memoirs reviewed

Nicole Chung goes in search of her birth parents, while Sam Mills stays home to care for her schizophrenic father

Sam Mills, author of The Fragments of My Father 
issue 04 July 2020
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  • All You Can Ever Know: A Memoir of Adoption

    Nicole Chung

    One, pp. 320, £9

  • The Fragments of My Father: A Memoir of Madness, Love and Being a Carer

    Sam Mills

    Fourth Estate, pp. 320, £16

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