Find a Stranger, Say Goodbye

I strongly recommend this very intelligent and sensitively written book to anyone trying to engage the reading interest of older readers - most probably girls. Natalie Armstrong's search for her real parents, when she already has a very acceptable and loving set of adoptive parents, is related in a very absorbing, unsentimentalised way, which leaves the reader, whether she can 'identify' with the problem or not, utterly sympathetic chastened, too, no doubt, by the comprehension of the quality of loneliness of those around her and a realization of real identities that Natalie acquires by the end of her search.