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Father Unknown

Lesley Pearse

2002409 pagesabout 6–9 hours
2002
first published
  • 2002Penguin Books, Limited · ENGISBN 9780141008677
  • 2002Penguin Books, Limited · ENGISBN 9780718145149
  • 2009Penguin Group UK · ENGISBN 9780141924601
  • 2009Penguin Books · 409 pages · ENGISBN 9780141048918
  • 2014Penguin Books · ENGISBN 9781405920384
  • 2002Penguin Books Ltd · 416 pagesISBN 9780141006475
  • 2011Penguin UK · 416 pagesISBN 9780141046051
  • 2002Chivers Large print (Chivers, Windsor, Paragon & C · 488 pagesISBN 9780754018339

One young woman in search of a past - and a future ...Sweet-natured but dappy Daisy Buchan drifts from job to job and takes her policeman boyfriend Joel for granted. She's happy, but she doesn't know what she wants from life.But when her adoptive mother dies and leaves her twenty-five-year-old daughter a scrapbook of memories, Daisy finally discovers who she is and where she came from. Her real mother was a teenage farmer's daughter from Cornwall - and Daisy drops everything to go and find her. But in going in search of her past, is Daisy risking the future of her relationship not only with her adored dad but also with Joel? And will she be able to deal with the truth about her real parents and the real Daisy?

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