The kidnapping of baby Zephany Nurse from the cot beside her mother’s hospital bed made headline news. Desperate pleas from her parents to return her safely went unanswered. There was no trace of the baby. For seventeen years, on her birthday, the Nurses lit candles and hoped and prayed. Living not far away from the Nurses, 17-year-old Miché Solomon had just started Matric. She had a boyfriend. She had devoted parents. She was thinking about the upcoming school dance and the dress her mother was going to make for her. She had no idea that a new girl at her school, who bore an uncanny resemblance to her, and a DNA test would shake her world to its foundations. Miché is now 22. This is her story – for the first time in her own words. Told with astonishing maturity, honesty and compassion, it is also a story of what it means to love and be loved, and of claiming your identity.
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With an academic background in English and Psychology, and a brief but formative stint in management consulting, Joanne Jowell began writing professionally at age 28. Her first book, ‘Managing the Quarterlife Crisis: Facing life’s choices in your 20s and 30s’, was published in 2003. Her signature style in creative non-fiction, examining the multiple voices that collide in any single biography, is evidenced in such bestselling biographies as ‘On the Other Side of Shame: An Extraordinary Account of Adoption and Reunion’ and the surrogacy story ‘Winging It: Jonathan Kaplan’s Journey from World-class Ref to Rookie Solo Dad’. Joanne lives between the mountain and the sea in Cape Town, South Africa with her husband and three children. ‘Zephany’ is her sixth book.
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