![]() Betty’s life ‘changed in an instant’, and George and Veda were forced to admit to the teenager that they had ‘adopted’ her aged three and weren’t her real parents. Paragraphs from this are judiciously scattered throughout the book, the most climactic being when 13-year-old Betty was approached by a woman on the local bus, whispering: ‘Your grandmother wants to see you’. There was the family album, replete with hidden clues if you had an art critic’s eye, plus Betty’s memoir of her claustrophobic childhood, written at Cumming’s request for her 21st birthday. ![]() ![]() ![]() ‘This was the first we had ever heard of the kidnap,’ Cumming writes. ![]()
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