Author explores friend's quest to find birth mother and prove childhood love

Australian author Dianne discovered her friend's heartbreaking search for her birth mother while researching a novel about love and family. Her friend, abandoned as a baby at a Fitzroy church, sought evidence she was ever loved as a child. The story became a meditation on fundamental human needs after the author, who survived Addison's disease, recognized love's profound value.

Summary by Glance · Brisbane Times