00000nam a2200000 a 4500 Brundage, Elizabeth aut Verfasser/-in USA biological father adoptive father adoptive parents Baby facade young people conflicted characters Thriller idyllic small town Englisch Adoption mysterious past american psyche Somebody Else's Daughter A Novel Elizabeth Brundage London Penguin Books 2008 Like The Doctor's Wife - which The Boston Globe called "a compelling read"-Somebody Else's Daughter is a literary page-turner peopled with fascinating and disturbing characters. In the idyllic Berkshires, at the prestigious Pioneer School, there are dark secrets that threaten to come to light. Willa Golding, a student, has been brought up by her adoptive parents in elegant prosperity, but they have fled a mysterious and shameful past. Her biological father, a failing writer and former drug addict, needs to see the daughter he abandoned, and so he gains a teaching position at the school. A feminist sculptor initiates a reckless affair, the Pioneer students live in a world to which adults turn a blind eye, and the headmaster's wife is busy keeping her husband's current indiscretions well hidden. Building to a breathtaking collision between two fathers-biological and adoptive, past and present- Somebody Else's Daughter is both a suspenseful thriller and a probing study of richly conflicted characters in emotional turmoil. 9780452295377 9780452295377 0452295378 0452295378 eng 338 S.