Later Life Letter: A Story of Family, Adoption and Love

'When it comes to poetry, performing and family Luke Wright is a lifer.Read this book' LEMN SISSAY'A highly original idea, expertly carried out' JOHN COOPER CLARKE'A beautiful, brilliant collection.I defy you not to be moved' BRIAN BILSTONWhat is a later life letter?Written by a child's social worker to be opened at an appropriate age, it details their journey from birth to adoption.When Luke Wright received his as a teenager, he didn't think much of it.But now, married to a social worker and seeing the care she takes with these letters, he re-examines his own past - and the life he might have had. Should he feel close to the biological brothers he knows only through social media?Do his beginnings in a notorious tower-block estate counteract the privilege of a sheltered suburban upbringing?How grateful should he be to adopted parents who are - in the end - simply parents?In this memoir in poetry, no emotion is simple or expected.Wright writes with pinpoint honesty, teasing out the nuan