SECRETS, SPIES AND SPOTTED DOGS - Tecno-Libro

Secrets, Spies and Spotted Dogs by Jane Eales A simple need for her birth certificate leads Jane, aged 19, to a devastating secret: she was adopted as a five-week old baby in London in 1947. Stunned, Jane is sworn to secrecy and forbidden to search for her biological family a promise she honours until after her adoptive parents die. A heart-wrenching family crisis and a longing to know her origins leads Jane into a life-changing quest in Salisbury, now Harare, Johannesburg, London, Berlin and Sydney. Seeking clarity about her genes, she also longed to know why she had been adopted. She knew her adoptive parents to be well -meaning, so who had imposed the secrecy conditions on her adoption and why? And who were her adoptive parents? Almost four decades later while in London, Jane meets Paul, her new half-brother, and sees her first photograph of their mother, Phyllis. .Sadly, Phyllis, had already passed away. Phyllis was a well-educated elega