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Finding Katy
Nurse Claire Burton is shocked when she hears Aunt May’s dying words, ‘Your mother didn’t die, dear.’ She determines to find answers to the mystery that had hung over her all her life. She had always known that she was adopted but questions about her real parents had been brushed aside.
Flashback to World War One and a house in mourning. Sixteen-year-old Katy Woodward, the daughter of a prominent Sussex businessman, is grief stricken. Her brother has been killed on the front and she prays her lover, farm boy Tommy, hasn’t met the same fate.
Then she discovers she is pregnant. Innocently, she had not realized the consequences of her loving farewell to Tommy before he left for the Front. When the baby is born, Katy’s parents blame Nanny May for neglecting her charge. Her father orders May from the house and tells Katy the baby has died,
Katy breaks down and her father has her sent away to a private institution. But she is convinced the baby survived.
Years later Claire, still looking for answers, confides in Doctor Philip Reade who promises to help.
Will Claire ever be reunited with her birth mother?
Flashback to World War One and a house in mourning. Sixteen-year-old Katy Woodward, the daughter of a prominent Sussex businessman, is grief stricken. Her brother has been killed on the front and she prays her lover, farm boy Tommy, hasn’t met the same fate.
Then she discovers she is pregnant. Innocently, she had not realized the consequences of her loving farewell to Tommy before he left for the Front. When the baby is born, Katy’s parents blame Nanny May for neglecting her charge. Her father orders May from the house and tells Katy the baby has died,
Katy breaks down and her father has her sent away to a private institution. But she is convinced the baby survived.
Years later Claire, still looking for answers, confides in Doctor Philip Reade who promises to help.
Will Claire ever be reunited with her birth mother?
352 pages, Paperback
Published January 17, 2023
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About the author
Roberta Grieve
35 books4 followersOn 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.
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February 9, 2023
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.
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.
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