| HiddenEgo's most recent publication is
'Reconstructing Stephen', an autobiography by Stephen Francis.
Reconstructing Stephen tells his adoption story. Stephen was recently a guest on Radio 4's 'Between Ourselves'.
At 39, Stephen Francis is fast approaching mid-life
crisis. Depressed and subject to anxiety, panic attacks, exhaustion, burnout
and intermittent bouts of alcoholism, his life is going into freefall. Only
when he reaches his lowest point, and seeks the help of a counsellor, is he
able to address the roots of his malaise, which lie in his early life as an
adopted child.
In this outspoken autobiography the author uncovers,
with unerring frankness and honesty, the truth about his own life and that of
the little spoken of – and virtually taboo – subject of adoption from the point
of view of an adoptee who feels no sense of belonging to his adoptive parents.
As he retraces the path that led to his shattering
discovery that he is adopted – and realises that the sense of alienation he has
felt all his life is grounded in fact rather than paranoia, Stephen describes
the inevitable breakdown and deconstruction of his identity and the slow
healing process of reconstruction that can then begin.
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