Finding your birth parents

Watching the band up on stage, I felt so proud. ‘That’s my dad,’ I boasted to my friends as he drummed along to rock music. Aged 10, I loved going to his gigs. I’d tag along to rehearsals and knew all

I’d grown up wondering why I looked so different from my family. But it took 35 years to discover the truth.

Our Antonella tells it how it is

Most of us have unfortunate brick walls in our family trees – those frustrating relations who seem to have appeared into the world as if from nowhere. Perhaps a person does not feature in the baptism

Ruth Appleby, 61, never got over losing her daughter, but decades later she uncovered something shocking…

My own mum despised me from the moment I was born