Andrew Pierce’s moving memoir is dedicated “to Betty and George, my real mum and dad”. That puts the story that follows in perspective. It’s about his search for his birth mother. But we know at the start that it has a happy ending, because Betty and George were there for the little boy, who grew up to be a distinguished journalist.
It’s about more than Finding Margaret. It’s about the career of a boy from Swindon who made a success of his education at local Catholic schools, who had a loving family with a father who worked at British Leyland and a mother who put the family first, and who became a name as a journalist through that now almost extinct route of local newspapers. There are lots of things that made Andrew and some of that social structure doesn’t exist any longer.
