I’d always wanted a brother or a sister, but Mum’s revelation was the start of something far bigger.

When Louise put a message to her father in her local paper, she couldn’t believe what happened…

Grabbing my hand, my husband Moustafa, then 27, smiled nervously as we returned our gaze to the screen. ‘Can you hear that?’ the sonographer asked and I listened to the thump-thump-thump coming from t

Scott Shearer’s world was turned upside down when he was 12 years old. He discovered his supposed parents Ted and Sylvia were not his mum and dad after all – they were his grandparents. They had hidde

Ebony’s mum had turned things around and was back in her life. But then a brutal act robbed them of everything…

When my pugnaciously no-nonsense granny set about constructing our family tree, she cut through the ambiguity of my place on it by adding (grafted) after my name. It was a fair, if blunt, acknowledgem