In this book, Anna invites us into her world as she narrates her story which covers the expanse of two continents in a short period of time. She has just lost her mother and while sorting through her stuff she finds a diary dated before she was born owned by one Francis Aggrey. She proceeds to read this diary and finds out that Francis is indeed her birth father whom her mother refused to speak of. Anna meets him on the pages of his diary and decides to do the same in real life.
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