A Saucerful of Secrets by Jane Yardley
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...
Jane Yardley was brought up in Essex in the 1960s. She has a PhD from a London medical school and works on clinical projects around the globe. Her first novel, Painting Ruby Tuesday, (which was written on aeroplanes) was short-listed for the Guilford Arts First Novel Prize. Rainy Day Women is her second novel.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780385609326 |
| ISBN 10 | 0385609329 |
| Title | A Saucerful of Secrets |
| Author | Jane Yardley |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Transworld Publishers Ltd |
| Year published | 2005-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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