A Saucerful of Secrets
  • Published: 5 October 2015
  • ISBN: 9781784161514
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $24.99

A Saucerful of Secrets

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1 Aug 2011
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5 Oct 2015
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A teenage girl comes to Ealing to find her birth mother, a glamorous, bohemian writer who was forced to adopt her illegitimate child. A blackly funny novel with a mystery element about adoption, relationships and identity - with a stunning twist .

It is 1969. London swings, men land on the moon, and thirteen-year-old Kim Tanner appears on Imogen's doorstep to announce she is her long-lost daughter.

Imogen wrote a bestseller about the baby she was forced to give away, so there have been many contenders, but Kim is special, and she is convinced. Kim and her dog Welly move in with the beautiful, bohemian Imogen and proceed to bring order to chaos. Then along comes pretty, appealing Sukie, also claiming to be Imogen's child. Kim is determined to prove she is Imogen's daughter but when the starts digging she unearths a very murky story...
  • Published: 5 October 2015
  • ISBN: 9781784161514
  • Imprint: Black Swan
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 416
  • RRP: $24.99
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About the author

Jane Yardley

Jane Yardley was brought up in Essex in the 1960s. She has a PhD from a London medical school and works on clinical projects around the globe. Her first novel, Painting Ruby Tuesday, (which was written on aeroplanes) was short-listed for the Guilford Arts First Novel Prize. Her other novels are Rainy Day Women, A Saucerful of Secrets and Dancing with Dr Kildare.

Also by Jane Yardley

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Praise for A Saucerful of Secrets

The novel contains some fine playful moments, but it's when observing the real discomfort of not being loved, and not being known, that Yardley's writing shines.

The Glasgow Herald

This is a thoughtful, humorous and often moving story about adoption and identity

Kate Saunders, The Times

'Touching and funny'

B

If you like the sixties and mysteries, you'll enjoy this

Marie-Claire

Admirers of Shena Mackay will find the same mixture of dreamy charm and sharp-eyed humour ... Wonderfullly captures that era's bohemian mood ... Funny, touching and beautifully written

Christina Koning, The Times