Strangers in the family
Although this book is written by a real-life Yorkshire lass, the story belongs in Hollywood alongside the likes of Jackie Collins, and holds its own on every page.
The title of the book even says something about itself and is cleverly named Relative Strangers, which is a great play on words and gives me another oxymoron to add to my ever growing list of words with contradicting meanings.
Our heroine is called Danielle, she lives in France and leaves her home to go and study in Edinburgh.
She becomes ill and it turns out that she has a rare blood group that none of her family have, which can only mean that she's not from the same gene pool as the rest of her family.
Marcel, her dad, well, her stepdad hires a private detective to track down a donor. But on the way to tracking one down he uncovers past secrets of all involved and traces the history throughout England and Australia.
Not the usual book that I would get my nose into, but it's not at all what I expected it to be. To be honest I expected a simple story of a baby taken away from it's mother and then both parent and child reunited in the end, job done.
But what I got in its place was a story along those lines but with twists and turns that were not expected and a read more like a suspense thriller with romance thrown in.
All in all I have to say that I enjoyed it thoroughly and for her first full novel Shirley Heaton has written a blinder, I'm looking forward to more and hope this isn't just a one off!
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