Blue-Eyed Son by Nicky Campbell
`Blue-Eyed Son is a personal history, but its themes – family, self-identity and filial love – are universal’ Frances Hardy, Daily Mail Raised in a comfortable middle-class home, Nicky Campbell’s Scottish Protestant family cared and nurtured him as their own, while remaining open about the fact he’d been adopted. His father – an ex-army man – and his mother helped him to a good school and a good university. Nicky rarely thought of his birth parents, until a combination of an imploding marriage and a chance meeting with a private detective led him to track his mother down. Nicky Campbell brilliantly recalls their reunion and tentative steps towards a relationship, evoking all the complex and deep-seated emotions that being reunited elicited in each of them. But as they talked it became clear that there was more to Nicky’s background than he expected. . . In this emotionally gripping and refreshingly honest memoir, Nicky Campbell describes the many sides of a family’s dark history, and how it feels to find out where you come from.
Nicky Campbell has been a radio broadcaster since he graduated from Aberdeen University. He has worked at London's Capital Radio, Radio 1 and, since 1997, has presented a hugely popular show on Five Live. He is also a highly regarded television presenter, having appeared on such diverse shows as Wheel of Fortune and Newsnight, Top of the Pops and Panorama. He currently fronts BBC1's Watchdog and in the summer of 2007 was the face of the BBC's 'Family Wanted' campaign. He lives with his wife and four daughters in South London.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781405047180 |
| ISBN 10 | 1405047186 |
| Title | Blue-Eyed Son |
| Author | Nicky Campbell |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2004-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
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