Why i stopped searching for mum

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.

My own mum despised me from the moment I was born

I wanted to start a family, so I invited the girls round for a party

Aged 11, a shocking family secret turned Keiley’s life upside down…

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