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Secrets, Spies and Spotted Dogs

av Jane Eales

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"A simple need for her birth certificate leads Jane, aged 19, to a devastating secret: she is adopted. Stunned, Jane is sworn to secrecy and forbidden to search for her biological family - a promise she honours until her adoptive parents die. A heart-wrenching family crisis and a longing to know her origins leads Jane into a life-changing quest to research her roots in Rhodesia, Johannesburg, London, Berlin and Sydney. Born in London in 1947 and adopted by a German Jewish family she starts her search by retracing her childhood and the lives of her adoptive parents before and during WWII. Then, later, after meeting with her birth family in London, she learns her mother, Phyllis, was an elegant, well-educated exuberant woman, and yet she abandoned her firstborn son at 8 weeks. Why?As snippets of Phyllis's extraordinary wartime career emerge, Jane discovers Phyllis volunteered for the British Army, and was a member of FANY,(First Aid Nursing Yeomanry), one of the units used to recruit women for espionage. She lived in Ashby Castle near Bletchley Park while driving a 27 Humber in the Women's Transport Service. In September 1944, Phyllis was sent by the Dutch to Arnhem to spy on the Germans. How could this possibly be true? At times reminiscent of Honeysuckle Weeks's role in Foyle's War, the much loved British TV serial, this true story interweaves the raw emotion of adoptee discovery, the heart-pounding threads of WWII espionage and a poignant search for truth and identity." --… (mer)
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This is the true story of one woman’s search for her birth family which crosses continents from South Africa and Rhodesia, to Australia, the UK, and Holland. Jane Eales discovered she was adopted when she was 19. Her adoptive parents made her swear never to tell anyone else about her adoption and never to search for her birth parents.
She lived with the uncertainty of not knowing for 40 years until, when both her adoptive parents were dead, she started to search. The journey crosses continents as she uncovers a family’s pre-World War Two flight as Hitler threatens, the politics of Southern Africa, and spying during WW2. The ‘Spotted Dogs’ in the title is a reference to Dalmatian dogs; the author’s birth mother, Phyllis, was a renowned UK dog breeder.
For Jane Eales, the promise she made to her adoptive parents was a difficult one to break. They were the only parents she had known, they cared for her, she loved them though she found it difficult to accept and understand their need for secrecy when it made her own life so ill-defined. What prompted her to search? With a learning-disabled son, she was advised to check her own genetic history.
The story is told slowly and carefully, starting with her own childhood and her adopted father’s Jewish family, leading first to a half-brother, cousins, before identifying her birth mother Phyllis. Although this is fascinating, and adds to the final picture, I wanted to get to the bit about spying promised in the book’s title. For that I had to be patient. At times, the book has the feeling of ‘my family’s story’, but the author’s honesty about coming to terms with the decisions taken in the 1940s when times were very different, make this book a worthy read for anyone interested in autobiographies about adoption or family history.
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"A simple need for her birth certificate leads Jane, aged 19, to a devastating secret: she is adopted. Stunned, Jane is sworn to secrecy and forbidden to search for her biological family - a promise she honours until her adoptive parents die. A heart-wrenching family crisis and a longing to know her origins leads Jane into a life-changing quest to research her roots in Rhodesia, Johannesburg, London, Berlin and Sydney. Born in London in 1947 and adopted by a German Jewish family she starts her search by retracing her childhood and the lives of her adoptive parents before and during WWII. Then, later, after meeting with her birth family in London, she learns her mother, Phyllis, was an elegant, well-educated exuberant woman, and yet she abandoned her firstborn son at 8 weeks. Why?As snippets of Phyllis's extraordinary wartime career emerge, Jane discovers Phyllis volunteered for the British Army, and was a member of FANY,(First Aid Nursing Yeomanry), one of the units used to recruit women for espionage. She lived in Ashby Castle near Bletchley Park while driving a 27 Humber in the Women's Transport Service. In September 1944, Phyllis was sent by the Dutch to Arnhem to spy on the Germans. How could this possibly be true? At times reminiscent of Honeysuckle Weeks's role in Foyle's War, the much loved British TV serial, this true story interweaves the raw emotion of adoptee discovery, the heart-pounding threads of WWII espionage and a poignant search for truth and identity." --

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