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She was a chosen child, her adoptive parents said, and more dearly loved because of that. It should have been enough, but Julia had an obsessive need to know the story that had been enacted on the other side of that hospital crib from which they had taken her, despite the advice of the family doctor and the vicar to leave well alone. ‘You're crazy,’ Nicholas, the boy-friend, told Julia bluntly. 'You will hate your mother for giving you away, and she will hate you for turning up and spilling the beans to an unsuspecting family.' However, like many another unreasoned and deeply felt desire, Julie's obsession drove her away from security and familiar things on a long pilgrimage. Vicky Maxwell has deftly woven a poignant and moving tale of what ensued when Julia walked in on a woman who, without forgetting, had nonetheless learned to live without her.