Books, booklets & multimedia

Together in Time

	Price: £7.95	BAAF, March 2008 ISBN  978 1 905664 39 9

As we drove home from this mother of all meetings, Joe sat in the back, flicking through his Thomas the Tank Engine book, oblivious to the drama taking place in his life. We were silent. I feared the future. Ed was angry. We were on our own. As far as the local authority was concerned…it was our problem.

Together in Time is the open and honest account of Ruth and Ed Royce’s journey from childlessness to celebrating as a family. From a dual perspective, each with their own anxieties, expectations and vulnerabilities, they look back on their decision to adopt, to the fear that their family was falling apart, to their experience of music and art therapy, and then on to their decision to adopt for a second time. Would they ever understand their son’s deep-seated problems with drums and tambourines? They weren’t so sure…

They record their feelings about the events that transpired and show how creative therapies helped them come together as a family.

Published as part of BAAF’s successful Our Story series this book will appeal to adopters and prospective adopters, social workers, counsellors and therapists and all childcare professionals.