Secrets, Spies and Spotted Dogs: Unravelling mysterious family connections behind a secret adoption by Jane Eales

by Jane Eales

Mass Market Paperback

About the author

Now an award winning author, Jane was born and adopted in London, in 1947. Her family emigrated to Zimbabwe, where she grew up, and at 18 she left home to live in South Africa. She met Rob there, and they married in Oxford, returned to South Africa, and ten years later in 1980, they emigrated with their family to Sydney Australia.

When she met her biological family in 2005 she stopped work. She was flooded with family stories, and as a way of making sense of everything, she began to write. As layer upon layer of family history emerged, she was often asked ‘why don’t you write a book?’ and Secrets, Spies and Spotted Dogs is the result. A serendipitous outcome in her search for identity emerged in 2008 when she began to draw and paint.

Secrets, Spies and Spotted Dogs was recently judged a Winner in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards in New York - the largest not-for-profit book awards program open to independently published authors worldwide.

Although Secrets, Spies and Spotted Dogs is her first book, she has had numerous media exposure in Australia including Television (Channel 9), Radio National (including 'Conversations with Richard Fidler'), local newspapers and magazines. (For other information about the book, news, book club discussion questions, etc. see www.middleharbourpress.com)

Jane and her husband live in Sydney.