Foundling: An Adopted Child's Search for Her Identity

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Summary: A stirring and candid personal revelation
Review: Foundling: An Adopted Child's Search For Her Identity is the memoir of Mary Sturge, a woman who was abandoned at the age of fourteen months, and adopted at age four by a middle-aged single woman. Her long struggle in coming to terms with her self, her heritage, and her future are recounted, as well as her strained relationship with her foster mother and her battle with depression and frustrated search for her unknown biological parents. A stirring and candid personal revelation told through memories, daydreams and associations, Foundling is the remarkable account of a remarkable woman who was educated at the Royal College of Music in London and the New School in New York, who has been writing and performing music from a very early age, who married, had four sons, and in 1961 emigrated to the United States with her family.