In 2004, Guardian beauty editor Hannah Pool was living a glamorous London life, knowing more about lipstick trends than about Eritrea, the war-torn country of her birth, and feeling complete within her white, English adoptive family. When she was unexpectedly contacted by relatives she never knew existed, she decided to return to Africa to confront the questions every adopted child asks about identity, loss, and belonging. My Fathers’ Daughter traces her brave and emotionally charged journey to Eritrea, where she encounters the family she lost and the father she believed dead,