Michaela Foster Marsh is an acclaimed musician with three albums to her credit whose work has appeared in television and film, including Dawson's Creek and The Matthew Sheppard Story. She has been invited to sing at the Monaco International Film Festival, the Cannes International Film Festival, and for Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth. She is the founder and Executive Director of Starchild Charity, which works primarily with vulnerable children and women and which recently built a School for Creative Arts in Vvumba, Uganda. In 2017, she was a finalist for Scotswoman of the Year by the Evening Times and has received a Prime Minister's award for her work in Uganda. She lives in Glasgow.
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"I loved this book from start to finish. The journey Marsh takes from the death of her adopted brother to searching for his family in Uganda hits hard on so many emotional levels. It reminds us of the resiliency of the human spirit and what can be accomplished when one is fueled by conviction. STARCHILD is both a love story to a brother taken too soon and a bright spotlight directed onto the challenges of foster care and adoption."--Charles deLint, author of Moonheart and The Wind in His Heart "STARCHILD is an odyssey; a spiritual voyage of self-discovery. Michaela Foster Marsh, through sheer - obsessive even - dedication, illuminates and highlights a path, no matter how jaggedly rocky, that can help lead towards emotional fulfillment."--Peter McDougal, BAFTA and Prix Italia award-winning screenwriter "The story of Starchild is extraordinary in every way: heartbreaking, profound, personal, brave, hopeful and deeply inspiring."--Helen Sedgwick, author of The Comet Seekers and The Growing Season "Wow! I knew Michaela Foster Marsh was a fantastic singer. I didn't know she was also a fantastic writer. Her book about her brother Frankie and the ever-twisting route that took her to changing the lives of children in Uganda is part detective novel, part intense soul-searching about the realities of adoption, and part travelogue about the colourful, and sometimes scary, reality of dealing with elusive individuals and organisations in Africa. What Michaela and her partner Rony achieved in Uganda is astonishing. The fact she can describe it so movingly in the written word is equally breathtaking."--Ken Smith, columnist, The Herald