00:00This is the first novel I've written for about five years and it's a story really
00:05about two women who are in a hospital at the same time at midnight or
00:11thereabouts. Both of the women give birth to a baby daughter. One of the women
00:16leaves the hospital with the other woman's daughter and raises that child
00:22as her own. What happens when somebody discovers 18 years later that their
00:27identity is not what they thought it was. Forgiveness and mistakes and regret and
00:35massive mother love. I have thought an awful lot about nature and nurture
00:41because I've been involved in the adoption process partly through my mum
00:47who was on an adoption panel for many years so I heard lots of stories and I
00:54thought about those and then I adopted my own daughter. I forget that I have no
01:00genetic connection to my daughter because I'm utterly connected to her in every way.
01:04If my readers take away anything from this book I would hope that it's it's very hard
01:12to forgive but you do not live properly unless you do. So forgiveness I think, yeah.
