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Adopted at eighteen months, Caradoc King was brought up in a large & growing family. His adoptive mother, a complex woman, was unable to bond with her newly adopted son & treated him with a harshness bordering on cruelty. At the age of six, he was sent to a boarding school run by two brilliantly eccentric brothers. But this happy time ended abruptly when his adoptive mother became a passionate Catholic & removed him from the school. From the age of eleven, Caradoc was shuttled from one school to the next, later failing to fulfil his mother's wish that he should join a seminary. When he was fifteen, he was informed that he had been adopted &, a year later, his parents ejected him from the family. Two years later, he scraped into Oxford & there on his first day met Philip Pullman, who was to become his first client when he set up as a literary agent. Thirty years later, Caradoc went in search of his natural family & began to make sense of the mystery of his two absent mothers.