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Advice on a complicated plot?

I’m writing a story about a boy who was adopted by a couple. The father hates the child and the mother loves him. The mother dies and so the boy is left with his adopted father, who eventually get him a job in the town as an apprentice in a bookshop. Whilst there, he meets a woman who takes a particular interest in him, and eventually a close bond is formed.
I’m not sure how yet, but it turns out this woman is the boy’s real mother who the adopted father slept with. He left the woman before he found out she’d fallen pregnant, and so his adopted father is actually his real father..
Thoughts?

Well…
I have a few qualms, yes.

When a couple decides to adopt a child, they have to go through a fairly strenuous checking-over by Social Services beforehand. The couple has to be absolutely devoted to raising a child, and so it kind of seems a little bit… Odd to think the father would hate the son he tried to hard to get.
It might seem a bit more believable if they were his foster parents?

And this woman in the book shop. How does he find out he’s her mother? It’d have to be a pretty small town if she’s the only one that’s ever adopted a child out… And children that are taken into the adoptive services can end up on the other side of the country. It’d pretty rare to be in the same town. But is your story line something like… They real mother and father have an affair, and when the wife finds out, she insists the mother give them the child when it’s born? Because it would make more sense then…

And despite my criticisms, I actually like your idea. Just sew up the plot holes a little

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