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Ingrid Noll | Kuckuckskind | English Title: Cuckoo's Child<br>Novel, 352 Pages

Novel, Hardcover
352 Pages
Published in July 2008

ISBN 978-3-257-06632-6

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Ingrid Noll
Kuckuckskind

English Title: Cuckoo's Child

Mama’s baby – papa’s maybe? ›Cuckoo’s Child‹ is a story about three paternity tests, a pregnancy test, a baby in a laundry basket, a few dead persons and unconventional family bliss in a nest which, though entirely unfamiliar, is nonetheless rather cosy. »A little house with a garden, a happy marriage and above all two children, those were my goals in life«, Anja, a teacher in her late thirties thinks to herself. Far from having reached her goals, she is stuck in a ›rat hole‹ as she calls the lodging into which she fled following her divorce. When her colleague Birgit becomes pregnant, Anja can’t help suspecting the child was conceived by her own ex-husband. She persuades Birgit’s husband secretly to undergo a paternity test. The side effects are potentially dangerous... With an equal portion of humour and insight into the slings and arrows of nest-building, ›Cuckoo’s Child‹ depicts family constellations which are anything but boring and common. In the process she shows that the road to happiness is not always straight and smooth.

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»A wonderful mean book. Ingrid Noll twists the topic of of childlessness into a thrilling crime novel.«Die Welt

»Cliché and gender-stereotype pressed topics such as last minute panic, the longing for children, relationship-trouble and so called blended families are twisted by Ingrid Noll into such an amusing story, the only thing you can do is to compliment her.«Westdeutsche Allgemeine

»With Cuckoo’s Child comes a story right from the heart of Here and Now which involves tests on pregnancy or fatherhood as well as school-problems but told in such a light-headed way, it is nothing but pleasure to read them.«Rheinische Post

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