Mother Country

Moira Grayson is a heroin addict, living in a sordid London squat in the hippie 1970s, unfit to look after her baby. She was close to death when her American lover carried off the baby Alexander to give him a loving home in the Mid-West and an affluent future.

But now Alex is twenty-eight, orphaned in even more terrible circumstances and afflicted by an odd inability to form relationships with girls and a romantic hankering to see his long-dead mother's country. A business trip provides the chance to go and trace his unknown relatives.

He finds friendship, mystery and comfort from a quite unexpected direction. He discovers that while some British people are seriously hard to get along with, some turn out to be, after all, more closely akin to him than he could ever have imagined.