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02135aam a22003738i 4500 001 A895BF4C652711EBAC2324F85BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20210202012344 008 191004s2020 enk 000 f eng d 020 $a 1472264665 020 $a 9781472264664 035 $a (OCoLC)1158115810 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d ATCDL $d NZLPP $d OCLCO $d SILO 100 1 $a English, Rachael, $e author. 245 14 $a The Paper Bracelet / $c Rachael English. 264 1 $a London, England : $b Headline Review, $c 2020. 300 $a 490 pages ; $c 20 cm. 520 $a For almost fifty years, Katie has kept a box of secrets. It dates from her time working as a nurse in a west of Ireland mother and baby home, and contains a notebook with details of the babies and young women she met there. It also holds many of the babies' identity bracelets. Following the death of her husband, Katie makes a decision she has long kept at bay. She posts a message on an internet forum, knowing that the information she possesses could help reunite adopted people with their birth mothers. Soon, the replies are rolling in, and Katie encounters success, failure, heartache and joy as finds herself in the role of part-detective, part-counsellor - chasing down leads, piecing together stories, and returning many of the bracelets to their original owners. But there is one bracelet in the box that holds the key to a story that may never be told... 650 0 $a Family secrets $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Nurses $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Identification bracelets $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Adopted children $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Birthmothers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Family reunification $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Ireland, West of $v Fiction. 651 7 $a Ireland. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01205427 655 7 $a Fiction. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01423787 655 7 $a Domestic fiction. $2 lcgft 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781472264671 941 $a 2 952 $l RZPE145 $d 20211102012616.0 952 $l CDPF771 $d 20210202014344.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=A895BF4C652711EBAC2324F85BECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b C@VInitiate Another SILO Locator Search