Remarkable Adoption Memoir: An Improper Daughter

An Improper Daughter By Ruth Jones

The true story of a remarkable daughter’s search for her mother

This extraordinary story – written entirely without self pity – is Ruth Jones’ memoir of her search for her mother.

In 1928, as a 10-day-old baby she was left at a children’s home with a note: “Her name is Ruth.” For more than a decade, this was the only information Ruth had about her origins. Then, a chance finding of a slip of paper in the orphanage’s attic gives a vital clue as to who her mother is, and changes her life forever.

This moving and poignant memoir is a closely observed story of social attitudes in the 1930’s and society’s treatment of children at that time.

Ruth – who is now 80 –was motivated by a deep awareness of what it means to ‘not belong to anybody’ in the search for the truth about her family. She began collecting random and improbable clues that would one day lead her from the UK across the world to New Zealand to her mother.

What she finds will leave you riveted to this book and have you thinking about her story for days.

With indomitable spirit, humour and a keen eye for events and attitudes, Ruth Jones opens up a world so very different from a normal childhood.

An Improper Daughter – the result of almost 70 years of sleuthing - has so many extraordinary twists and turns it could almost pass as a detective story. But it is true.

About Ruth Jones
At 80 years old, Ruth is far from ‘geriatric’. Born in the UK, Ruth escaped her English orphanage by joining the Royal Navy’s Wrens in WWII. She married, migrated to New Zealand in her twenties, and has five children.

Erudite, witty and highly literary, Ruth Jones is available for interview. She lives in Albany, Auckland.

AN IMPROPER DAUGHTER by Ruth Jones is a Cape Catley Ltd paperback priced at $30 available May 2009.

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