A Sunday Note
Hello, All ~ Welcome back ~
Roots & Branches has always been a place for reflection on identity, inheritance, loss, and repair, whether through lived experience, the natural world, or story. I began serializing Through the Yew Hedge here because my debut novella grew directly out of those same questions.
Although it is a magical fairy tale for adults, it presents hard subjects. As the story continues, it enters more demanding terrain.
Episode 11 marks a turning point, where myth meets evidence: DNA, family patterns, inheritance, and the systems that decide who is permitted access to the truth of their own origins.
For adoptees, this reckoning often comes late, if at all. For adoptive parents, it can unsettle narratives built with care and good faith. For birth parents, it can reopen histories shaped by silence, poverty, and impossible choices.
Through the Yew Hedge: A Tale of Identity Magic is not a rescue story. It’s a story about rupture and recognition. About what it costs to become whole after legal severance.
Not every reader will want to follow the story into this depth, and that’s understood. But for those who come to Roots & Branches for thoughtful engagement with identity, grief, inheritance, and repair, I hope you’ll enjoy and benefit from the work I’m doing now.
This week’s installment of Through the Yew Hedge marks a threshold. A twelfth installment will complete the series next week. You’re always welcome to step in with the Prologue, or anywhere you’d like.
