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    Ebook241 pages4 hours

    More Than Just Coincidence

    By Julie Wassmer

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    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateSep 8, 2010
    ISBN9780007354320
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      Julie Wassmer's story reads like an extended woman's magazine feature, but there is no denying the raw emotion behind the punchy humour and new-age introspection. She made me laugh, she brought tears to my eyes, and the 'coincidence' of the title truly is stranger than fiction, as she repeats throughout.Julie was born into a larger than life family in the East End of London, much like the families on the soap opera she eventually came to write for. In fact, her life is more like a chick lit novel, replete with parent angst, romantic adventures, gay friends, true love - and a teenage pregnancy. After she returned from sailing around the Med with Captain Birdseye to fall straight into a successful writing career, I must admit I was rolling my eyes, but then, that is why I love to read about how exciting the lives of other people can be, after all.The main focus of Julie's story is actually the baby she gave up for adoption, after a mostly secret pregnancy in the late 1960s, and the twist of fate which reunited mother and daughter twenty years later. I read the key facts in a condensed newspaper version of Julie's book, but her telling of how they met is far more powerful, especially after sharing her life story up to that momentous day. Julie and her daughter Sara - called Sarah Louise on her birth certificate - also look amazingly alike, judging from the cover photographs, so it must have been like meeting her own reflection.The build up to the chance reunion, in the office of Julie's agent, is the better part of the book, after that she must have been so overwhelmed with reliving the experience that she rather overeggs the pudding ('Fireworks were still banging and fizzing outside. Or was it fallout from the final, cataclysmic collision of my two worlds?') Still, I was bowled over just by reading her story, so I can only admire her ability to put her thoughts and feelings into words!A heartwarming and fascinating true story.