Table of Contents

Chapter One THE ORPHANAGE 1 Chapter Two NEW FACES 21 Chapter Three THE FARMHOUSE 34 Chapter Four WINDSOR 52 Chapter Five BACK TO THE ORPHANAGE 66 Chapter Six A LITTLE HAPPINESS 74 Chapter Seven THE CULVERS 85 Chapter Eight HAWKRIDGE AGAIN 93 Chapter Nine BORSTAL 106 Chapter Ten THE MENTAL HOSPITAL 113 Chapter Eleven CHRISTMAS IN WINDSOR 128 Chapter Twelve THE TRUTH AT LAST 133

About the Author

For the first sixteen years of her life, Ingrid Steel did not even know her own name. She spent her childhood being shunted between orphanages. Her anger at the cruelty and bullying she suffered led to her being branded as a violent troublemaker, and she was even admitted to a mental hospital and at one point committed to Borstal. It was not until Ingrid won her freedom at the age of sixteen that she was able to embark on a normal life. She has now been happily married for more than 40 years to a lorry driver and has four grown-up children. Her work as a nurse gave her the opportunity to start investigating her past, and in her thirties she was finally able to identify her long-lost parents and even make contact with the brother she had never known she had. Ingrid lives with her husband in Dymchurch in Kent.