Chapter ElevenAberdeenshire, Scotland, May 1976
As Lucia Cannavaro began the first of the treatments intended to cure her infertility, a birth was taking place a long way from the clinic that would have a bearing on the futures of all the women in the Blenheim Wing of the Clinique Sobel, though no-one would have known it at the time.
In the midst of the Scottish countryside, in the tiny village of Torphins, stood a quaint and rather beautiful building that went by the name of the Kincardine O'Neil War Memorial Hospital. The hospital was in fact a very small maternity unit, which fell under the auspices of the Aberdeen Royal Infirmary some thirty miles away. With just five beds and a small staff, the unit existed to provide maternity facilities for some of the more isolated communities in
