Anthony Cleary

The book Nobody comes is a true account of Anthony Cleary and his wife Carmel trying to adopt a Romanian child after the revolution against Romania's corrupt communist leader Ceausescu. They had witness horrible conditions on t.v. taking place in that country especially in the orphanages that sparked their desire to rescue a child. The book basically explains all the steps that Cleary had to go through to get a child out of Romania and into the UK. Like a lot of other books I have read the orphanages are in deplorable condition. The children are more abused than actually taken care of. It took a lot of help from a friend he made while getting the run around from both Romania and the UK. Getting anything done when in Romania took bribing with cigarettes,soap,toothpaste and even vodka. Did he get to adopt the child he found? You will have to read the book because I do not like to give away the ending. There were a few things that I did not understand about the situation. His wife did not do anything regarding the adoption. You would think if you wanted to be a mother you would put things on hold and go fight along with your husband. She really was only mentioned less than half a dozen times in the book. Also there was a part whan he had the child but instead of spending time with his possible new child he left it with a stranger for almost a week so he would not have to worry about looking after it and went sight seeing instead. I could not believe it. How bad did these people want to be parents? For those two reasons I had to drop it a star. If you are interested in this topic you would enjoy this book.

"A good indignation brings out all one's powers" ~ Emerson, Journals, 1841

(I recieved this book for a honest review from LibraryThing)… (mehr)

Anthony Cleary tells the true story of the difficulties and trials he and his wife faced while trying to adopt their son Dominic, from one of the orphanages in Romania.
After the fall of Ceausescu in Romania, images of children left in orphanages saturated the news and the author and his wife knew they had to act and do whatever they could to rescue one or two of these children from the horrendous conditions in which they were forced to live.

Mr. Cleary faced resistance and obstacles both from the Governments in Romania and also his homeland in the United Kingdom. The conditions the children were living in were far worse than he could imagine.

I enjoyed reading the book and would recommend it to others, but had difficulty with the French phrases that were included. I do not speak French and so these excerpts were lost on me. I would have enjoyed the translation being provided as well.… (mehr)