So Many Ways to Belong - A Personal History of Adoption

Carol Atherton has taught English since 1996 and is currently Head of English at a secondary school in Lincolnshire. Originally from Merseyside, she read English at Oxford before doing a PGCE at Manchester Metropolitan University and a PhD at the University of Nottingham. She is a Fellow of the English Association and a member of the National Association for the Teaching of English. Atherton has written for a range of publications aimed at teachers and students, and she co-authored Teaching English Literature 16-19 (Routledge, 2013). Reading Lessons is her first trade publication.>

About the author

Carol Atherton is the author of Reading Lessons: An English Teacher's Love Letter to the Books that Shape Us, which was shortlisted for the Indie Book Awards 2025. She has taught English since 1996 and is currently Head of English at a secondary school in Lincolnshire. Originally from Merseyside, she read English at Oxford. She lives in Lincolnshire with her husband and son. So Many Ways to Belong is her second book.

Product details

• Authors: Carol Atherton, Atherton Carol
• Publisher: Fig Tree
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Release: 09.07.2026
• EAN: 9780241767290
• ISBN: 978-0-241-76729-0
• No. of pages: 256
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 222 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Adoption, HEALTH & FITNESS / Women's Health, Memoirs, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Adoption & Fostering, Women’s health, HEALTH & FITNESS / Fertility & Infertility, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Memoirs, Adoption and fostering: advice, topics and issues, Relating to alternative, blended or recomposed families