Book review: Fight to discover your identity

Paul Cullen had always been fascinated by the unanswered questions about his origins, but for many years pushed them to the back of his mind for fear of upsetting the people who had raised him
Book review: Fight to discover your identity

Born in London in 1963 to an Irish mother, Paul Cullen had been adopted. And like most of the people trafficked through that era’s arcane and secretive adoption system, he grew up knowing little or nothing about his true origins. Picture: Nick Bradshaw/ The Irish Times

  • Outsider: A Memoir of Survival, Family Secrets and the Search to Belong
  • Paul Cullen 
  • Hachette, €16.99 

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