THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

Finding Margaret: Solving the Mystery of my Birth Mother. He knew he had lived in a Roman Catholic orphanage in Cheltenham for more than two years and was adopted when he was three years old, by a family who loved him.

 

Brought up on a Swindon council estate his first job, which he started two weeks after he finished his A Levels, was on a newspaper in the same town where he lived in the orphanage for the first two years of his life. As he became more successful as a journalist, and despite the guilt he felt that he was betraying the mum he loved very much who adopted him,

 

Andrew began to tentatively search for his birth mother, only to find that she had done her very best to ensure he would never find her. But he did and then stumbled on an extraordinary story about his apparent birth father.

 

His book is a heart-warming page turner that takes the reader on an extraordinary journey. Full of amusing and eye-catching anecdotes, at its heart lies the inspirational story of a man’s long search for his birth mother and what happened when he finally found her.