Before We Were Yours

By Lisa Wingate

Book Overview

THE BLOCKBUSTER HIT--Over two million copies sold! A New York Times, USA Today, Wall Street Journal, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller "Poignant, engrossing."--People - "Lisa Wingate takes an almost... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1787473104
• Release Date: January 2018
• Publisher: HACHETTE UK
• Length: 480 Pages
• Weight: 0.78 lbs.
• Dimensions: 7.7" x 1.1" x 5.1"

Customer Reviews

One of the Best

Story is incredibly moving and really illustrates how the DHHS steals children. A lot of times we think these types of corruption are in the past, but I can assure you they continue even today. I would recommend this book to everyone it was so good. And I read the follow up to it “before and after”

Heartbreaking but strong women

Great book!

Gem

Sometimes you just read a book and it touches your heart this book is one of them. The fact that it is based on true events makes it even more vivid of an experience. I didn’t want to finish reading it it was that good.

Incredible Story! Read in 3 days.

This is a true heartbreaking and sad story but with resilience and true heart.

Very good read

Very sad but also very good

Beautifully written

The beginning felt slow- there were times I wanted to skip ahead. But overall I adored it

Outstanding human account of child trafficking adoption history

Had NO idea what I would be reading about when I bought this 2 years ago, but once you start reading you will have difficulty putting it down. Heartbreaking in some areas, but heart lifting in others, and a realistic inside look at what adopted children experience emotionally, as they are taken from one family and life and inserted into another one that differs so greatly....and the decades lived before finding a way to find their BIO siblings. Excellent reading.

Great read!

One of the best books I’ve read. Don’t miss it!

Great book

I'm a sucker for old people.

Top Notch!

The writing style in this book was different, with the narrative passing from years past to current day. The descriptions and characters were perfect. The story made me feel emotionally raw, yet I could not put it down.

This read gets your heart beating

I like this author much Wonderful read Great interesting story One read you will remember

Before We Were Yours

I'm not going to lie this truly is a heart wrenching story. Emotionally I cried through the entire book. I absolutely loved it and will definitely be rereading. It sheds light on horrors of the past that most of us knew nothing about💗💗💗💗💗. Thank you Lisa Wingate for the wonderful piece of work

I prefer books that don't jump from one place to another

The characters were interesting

Your heart will break for the children

I bought this book because it was a selection for my book club. It was so good that I passed it around to some of my friends after we had discussed it at book club, and everybody enjoyed it. What the children went through was so awful that I just wanted to go rescue them. I loved how we got to see how some of them turned out as adults too.