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Isn't he lovely? Red hair runs in your family, does it?
When Kate Gallantree's baby son is placed in her arms she is happier than she has been all her life, until the chance remark from the midwife.
Kate just stares at her, unable to answer, for when she was twenty her mother died and her father told lier she was an adopted child. Kate had been shocked and unsettled, but after some soul-searching had managed to put it to the back of her mind.
Now, hugging her baby, she realises that, for the first time, she is touching someone actually related to her
Ties of blood are powerful and Kate feels drawn to search for natural mother. What is revealed changes the lives of all around her: her husband Jack, who works on the od rigs Jack's rebellious daughter, Helen; and her son, Daniel, And Pauline?
Kate's real mother, also finds her life transformed by the resurgence of memories of Whitby just after the war and tire events that destroyed her family-and by the sudden appearance of a daughter she thought she would never see again
