Family Likeness

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<p>In a small Kent town in the 1950s, a bewildered little girl is growing up. Ostracised because of her colour, she tries her best to fit in, but nobody wants anything to do with her.</p><p>A nanny climbs the steps of a smart London address. Shes convinced that her connection to the family behind the door is more than professional.</p><p>And on the walls of an English stately home, amongst the family portraits, hangs an eighteenth-century oil painting of a mysterious black woman in a silk gown.</p><p>In ways both poignant and unexpected, the three lives are intertwined in a heartbreaking story of prejudice and motherless children, of chances missed, of war time secrets and the search for belonging...</p>

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Caitlin Davies is a journalist, teacher, non-fiction writer and novelist. She lives in north London. Her most recent novel is<i>The Ghost of Lily Painter</i>.

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