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That's my baby : a novel / Frances Itani.

by Itani, Frances, 1942-

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HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, c2017.

Adopted children -- Fiction.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction.

Family secrets -- Fiction.

9781443447805 (hc.)

Alternate title:

That is my baby

349 p. ; 24 cm.

At the end of Frances Itani's Tell, a baby is adopted by a young Deseronto couple who are coming to terms with the end of the Great War. Eighteen years on, the baby, Hanora, now a young woman, is told about her adoption, but given no details. As a second world war looms, Hanora is determined to uncover the mysteries of her identity. This quest will take her across the ocean with her cousin, Billie, and headlong into the tumult of Europe. Amid the tensions of World War II, the music and the great dance halls of the era beckon, and a career as a journalist becomes possible, even as her great love, Tobe, enlists in the Infantry. But Hanora will not let the past lie, even though, decades later, the truth remains beyond her grasp. Billie, whose memory is fading as she slips into dementia, provides elusive clues, but it isn't until Hanora discovers a set of diaries written by a late local artist and that she begins to piece together the central issue of her own identity, hidden from her since birth.

Historical fiction.

Literary fiction.

Canadian fiction.

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