Before I Was Yours

A thought-provoking story, raising the interesting subject of adoption and how difficult it is for a child to settle in with new parents. Our hearts went out to the adoptive parents, the child Jonah and a number of other characters in the book. We all thought this book was going to be a light holiday read but the title and book cover belied the depth of the book and left one of our member’s in tears by the end. We loved the social worker Trudi and her aunt; they were great characters. We were less keen on the character of Alice ( a seven-year old child who befriends Jonah) and felt the conversations between herself and Jonah were not realistic; the author failed to get inside the mind of seven-year old children. The story had a lot of symbolism and is great for discussion at book clubs.