PROLOGUE (GRACE ACROSS THE MILES)
October 1988
Nepean River, Sydney
“That’s impossible!” Gina’s voice rose as she stared at her father. “Totally impossible.”
Her dad moved over on the grassy hillock, where they were watching the Head of the River rowing championships, and put his arm around her.
Gina shook off his embrace. “How can I be adopted? All those photos in my album!” Including photos of herself as a newborn clearly labelled with the date she’d always celebrated as her birthday.
“We took you home three days after you were born,” he said.
So was the date on the photos her real birth date or the date she went home from hospital? Had she been celebrating the wrong birthday all these years? She shivered and pulled her knees up towards her chest.
Was it only this morning that sh
