Publisher's Synopsis
"Libby Purves' prose is clean, sharp and in touch with things that matter" DAILY EXPRESS Even her closest friend agreed that Moira Grayson wasn't fit to keep her baby. A heroin addict, living in a sordid London squat in the hippie 1970s, she was close to death when her American lover carried off Alexander to give him a loving home in the Mid-West and an affluent future. But now Alex is twenty-eight, orphaned in even more terrible circumstances, afflicted with an odd inability to form relationships and hankering to see his long-dead mother's country. A business trip to Britain provides the chance to trace his unknown relatives. He is surprised to find friendship, mystery and comfort from a quite unexpected direction.
