Full Description
This curious story - a novel of fiction, concerns twin boys separated at birth having been born in a home for unmarried mothers where her stay was
limited to twelve days. Most babies were then adopted. The sadness and trauma of this event was revealed to one son at his mother's death. The effect was profound. Solace and comfort did arrive finally from a strange and highly unusual source.
This novel was created in draft over fifty years ago. It surfaced in the last year and it seemed to have some writing within it that was little different in style than others published in the last few years, and worth revisiting. In a long dreary winter it put itself forward as an exercise and pleasure to take me through those grey cold days, to see what could be done with it, where it would now lead. The road it took was new, the old journey abandoned.
Contents
Foreword vii
Tribute and apology ix
i Driven 1
ii Upper Ash 5
iii Moore's Farm 9
iv Early call 13
v Dawn, Sunday morning 19
vi A phone call 25
vii Towards the South Downs Way 31
viii Identity 35
ix Revisit to a small hotel 41
x Bramdean, Hampshire 47
xi Mr Wishart 53
xii Ghilani 57
xiii Permission 63
xiv Phone call to an aunt 69
xv The Orchards 75
xvi A Confidential Offer 81
xvii First appointment 89
xviii Robert Wilkes 95
xix Contents of an unusual will 101
xx Home Office 107
xxi Millbank 113
xxii Friend in Crewkerne 121
xxiii Safe House 127
xxiv Before a gathering 127
xxv Hebe Sandys 131
Author's note 143
