Concord-resident Virginia MacGregor's latest novel, Before I Was Yours, is the story of a young Kenyan boy, Jonah, who is brought to England under mysterious circumstances by a friend of his mother's. He's abandoned at the airport and, after a stint in foster care, starts living with two would-be adoptive parents who are desperate for a child. But Jonah, as polite and well-behaved as he is, comes with his own set of complications, prompting the adoptive parents to question their ability to be parents at all. MacGregor spoke with NHPR’s Peter Biello about her book. Virginia MacGregor's Top Five Reading Recommendations: 1. If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things by Jon Macgregor. "I have a weak spot for novels that straddle the borderlines between prose and poetry. Jon Macgregor was a poet before he turned his hand to fiction, and this makes his prose beautiful and original. Every sentence sings. What I love, particularly, is that he uses this poetic prose to tell the story of ordinary