A Saucerful of Secrets

by JaneYardley (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2005

  $27.39

  It is 1969. Kim Tanner has been living happily in rural Essex, blissfully unaware that she is not the natural daughter of cleaning lady Peggy. But when the truth is revealed after Peggy's death, Kim heads to Ealing to find the woman she believes to be her birth mother - the glamorous, bohemian writer, Imogen St Clair, who was forced to give her illegitimate child up for adoption thirteen years earlier. Of all the children who have come forward over the years believing themselves to be the baby Charlotte of Imogen's bestselling memoir, none has been anything like Kim. Before long Kim moves to London to live with Imogen, - beautiful and hopelessly impractical with her grubby house, sponging boyfriend and hippie ideals. Kim - bright, streetwise and practical - with her dog, Welly proceeds to bring order to chaos. However, Peggy left no papers to explain Kim's background and when concerned friends start to do a little digging they soon begin to unearth a story far murkier than the one Kim had grown up believing - a story spiralling back to the summer of a famous child murder...

• Used

  Paperback
  2006

  $11.66

  It is 1969. London swings, men land on the moon, and thirteen-year-old Kim Tanner appears on Imogen's doorstep to announce she is her long-lost daughter. Imogen wrote a bestseller about the baby she was forced to give away, so there have been many contenders, but Kim is special, and she is convinced. Kim and her dog Welly move in with the beautiful, bohemian Imogen and proceed to bring order to chaos. Then along comes pretty, appealing Sukie, also claiming to be Imogen's child. Kim is determined to prove she is Imogen's daughter but when the starts digging she unearths a very murky story...