Maureen Cooper from Bristol was adopted out as a young girl when her father unexpectedly returned from war. / And we meet Wendy Stringer, whose mother was with a new partner and pregnant when her husband, having been declared missing, returned from the war. When the baby boy was born, his great-grandparents hastily found him a new home. It was only after her father's death that Wendy felt she could try to trace the half-brother she had never known.