By P. D. James
Followed as a toddler right into a privileged relatives, Philippa Palfrey fantasizes that she is the daughter of an aristocrat and a parlor maid. The terrifying fact approximately her mom and dad and a long-ago homicide is simply the 1st in a chain of surprising betrayals. Philippa speedy learns that those that delve into the secrets and techniques of the earlier has to be on protect whilst long-buried horrors start to stir. "As a criminal offense novel," wrote the London instances, blameless Blood is "the height of the art." "Flawlessly crafted...profoundly, masterfully moving," Cosmopolitan concurred.
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Don't you mean, to have the personal satisfaction of giving that child a better chance? " She wouldn't bother to refute that heresy, of course. Social-work theory didn't err. After all, its practitioners were the new priesthood, the ministry to unbelievers. " "Only that I'm illegitimate. My adoptive father's first wife came from the aristocracy, an earl's daughter, and was brought up in a Palladian mansion in Wiltshire. I believe that my mother was one of the maids there, who got herself pregnant.
Of course. That's why I'm here. " Her eyes dropped to the file. There was a rustle of papers. "So you were adopted on the seventh of January 1969. You must have been eight. " "I suppose they thought it was better than taking a very young baby and having broken nights. And my adoptive father could see that I was all right, physically, all right, that I wasn't stupid. There wasn't the same risk as with a young baby. I know that there are stringent medical examinations, but one can never be quite sure, not about intelligence, anyway.
Maurice never talks about it. My adoptive father's a university lecturer, a sociologist. Maurice Palfrey, the sociologist who can write English. His first wife and their son died in a car crash when the boy was three. She was driving. He married my adoptive mother nine months afterward. They discovered that she couldn't have children, so they found me. I was being fostered at the time, so they took over the care of me and after six months applied to the county court and got an adoption order. It was a private arrangement, the kind of thing your new Act would make illegal.