Who Knows Tomorrow: A Memoir of Finding Family Among the Lost Children of Africa

In the midst of a career in high fashion, journalist and author (Paris Interiors) Lovatt-Smith stepped off her gilded career path to pursue a passion. This inspiring memoir explores her transformation from the youngest editor at British Vogue into an activist focused on the establishment of children%E2%80%99s aid organizations in Ghana. When her daughter%E2%80%99s emotional problems became overwhelming, a counselor suggested that volunteering might help. Hoping the experience of working with orphans would be a %E2%80%9Clife lesson%E2%80%9D for her 17-year-old daughter, whom she had adopted 12 years earlier, Lovatt-Smith moved their household to Ghana. Conditions were abominable, but working with the children changed the course of both their lives, intellectually and geographically. As Lovatt-Smith writes, %E2%80%9CI had moved to Ghana, effectively transformed my career from writing and styling for magazines to charity work, and opened three companies%E2%80%94Oafrica in Ghana, Spain and France%E2%80%9D Though she was industrious and committed to her work, the author%E2%80%99s na%C3%AFvet%C3%A9 regarding her adopted country%E2%80%99s customs and culture soon became apparent as she grasped the depth of corruption within Ghana%E2%80%99s adoption business. The author reversed her plan in 2005, and initiated a crusade to get children out of orphanages and into families. %E2%80%9CIt was not only what I was reading of course, it was the nearly four years of experience in seven different orphanages, all with the same problems,%E2%80%9D she writes. Lovatt-Smith%E2%80%99s immensely readable narrative explores her personal metamorphosis and her positive impact on the children of Ghana. (Nov.)