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Portrait of Stella

Portrait of Stella

Author(s): Susan Wüthrich

Location(s): England, New Zealand (Aotearoa), South Africa

Genre(s): Fiction, Historical

Era(s): WW2 forward

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A fake birth certificate! No record of her existence in the UK data base. Jemima Ashton is desperate to discover her real identity.

With scant information and the burning question ‘who am I?’, she embarks on an incredible journey of detection.

On learning of her late mother Stella’s disappearance during WWII, she retraces her footsteps across the globe and at a distant vineyard, unearths a family she had no idea existed.

While treading a path of narrow-minded bigotry, scandalous revelations emerge of two families inextricably linked by one woman and the drastic steps they took to hide the truth.

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A spell binding story – Jemima’s birth certificate is a forgery. She doesn’t exist in the UK. What is her history? Her journey will take you to S Africa and New Zealand.

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