Regarding Agnes - A New Book By Cathy French

1926: a seven-year-old boy is collected from the family home by a stranger and taken to a Doctor Barnardo's home. The boy's father died in World War One. He doesn't know what happened to his mother.

More than seventy years later, aged 82, he leaves his daughter a scrap of paper bearing a single name, his mother's maiden name: Agnes Hughes. So begins an investigation to piece together what really happened to Agnes.

It's a true story about family, memory, and how it might be possible to find peace and forgiveness in the present by trying to reignite and understand the past.

Paperback and eBook versions are available.

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I loved it! It's about a boy, a family, a city, a world at war (two wars). How the story was structured is incredible! Poignant, knowledgeable, informed, historical, heartbreaking and full of longing.