Finding Katy

by Roberta Grieve

Nurse Claire has always known she was adopted and is determined to find answers to the mystery of her real parents. Flashback to World War One and sixteen-year-old Katy, daughter of a prominent Sussex businessman, who discovers she is pregnant. When the baby is born, Katy is told the baby died. Her Nanny is blamed for neglecting her charge and she is dismissed. She saves the baby and takes the illegitimate child to her sister to be cared for.

Katy is sent away to a mental hospital where she recovers from her breakdown. But she never loses hope that her baby survived.

Years later, Claire sets out to discover what happened to her birth mother.

354 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 1, 2023

About the author

On retirement from her library career, Roberta Grieve began writing in earnest and to date has had nineteen historical romances published. The latest, 'A Place to Call Home' is set on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent where she grew up.

Reviews

[Rosemary Morris · Rating 5 out of 5]

Finding Katy held my attention from the first paragraph to the last. As I read, I was desperate to know if the mystery would be solved.

After naïve sixteen-year-old Katy’s family disowned her during the first world war, she endured a living nightmare of cruelty, and did not know the whether the person she loved most lived or died.

Ms Grieve gave each of the main characters their own chapters to enable her readers to share their experiences, be with them on their journey, and reach what had seemed an impossible resolution. Several times, I needed a tissue to wipe my eyes. Katy and the other members of the cast will stay with me.

I highly recommend Finding Katy by talented novelist Ms Grieve.