Podcast Appearances
It's about family.
I don't think I've still fully accepted it, to be honest.
There's still a part of me that thinks this can't be happening, it's not real.
And about how secrets can, in the end, bubble up and destroy things.
Lies always come out, don't they?
Skeletons are always going to come out eventually.
I'm Lucy Greenwell, and from Tortoise Investigates and The Observer, this is Foundling.
Episode 1, On The Verge.
Did you sort of start imagining who your mum and dad might be?
Did you build up little fantasies about the kind of people they might have been at any stage?
Whenever I tell this story to friends and I explain that I've tracked down the abandoned baby, they're amazed.
Over the years, we referred to the baby as Heather, the name she was given by midwives.
But when I start asking around in the local area, it turns out a few people know her new name and it doesn't take too much detective work to track her down.
So, meet that abandoned baby girl, Jess.
She's now 38 years old, has big eyes, a huge smile and that distinctive curly hair.
Looking quite alert.
It's just a photo and underneath it says, Baby Heather, will she ever know her mother's identity?
These articles lay out what happened to baby Jess after she's handed to the nurses.
Reading them, it's clear to me the midwives, social workers, the police and the press are all desperately trying to persuade Jess's mother to come forward.