Somebody's Daughter

Zara H. Phillips seemed to live a charmed life—backing singer to the stars with an incredible career here and across the Atlantic—but her smile masked a difficult childhood and the reality that she was adopted as a baby in the 1960s. Her life soon spiraled and as a teenager she suffered from drug and alcohol addiction, as she struggled to find her birth parents and her true identity. Somebody's Daughter is a fascinating and revealing account of how a beautiful woman's life has been dominated by her adoption and how it has affected her and those around her. Hard-hitting and emotional, Zara's memoir explores the needs of adopted children, with her characteristic warmth and wit, and the true journey it takes to find where you belong.

Zara Phillips is a singer, performer, and nationally recognized speaker on adoption and addiction issues. In 2008, she directed and produced an adoption documentary, Roots Unknown, which won Best Homegrown Documentary at The Garden State Film festival in New Jersey. This led to her writing her first book, Mother Me. In 2009 she co-wrote a song and made a video with Darryl McDaniels from RUNDMC called "I'm Legit" to raise awareness on the emotional impact of adoption. In 2013, Zara debuted a one woman show, "Beneath My Father's Sky," which won for Best Direction in the United Solo Festival in New York, and has since been performed in Los Angeles, San Francisco and New Jersey. Zara writes articles for various adoption magazines, regularly talks and facilitates workshops and events related to adoption issues, and still performs her music at clubs in NYC and New Jersey.