She was a chosen child, her adoptive parents said, and more dearly loved because of that. But her beautiful, stubborn Julia had an obsessive need to know the story that had been enacted on the other side of the hospital crib from wich they had taken her.
Like so many other unreasoned, deeply felt desires, Julia's particular obssesion drove her away form security and familiar things to find the answer to her lifelong quest. In far away New Zealand, Julia walked in on a woman who, without forgetting, had none-theless learned to live without her. Now Julia would have to learn to live without the fantasy that had dominated her entire life.
Annette Isobel Eyre was born on 1920 in Auckland, New Zealand, daughter of Agnes Helen (Blair) and Thomas Edwardes Eyre. Before married, she served in the Royal New Zealand Air Force, from 1942 to 1945. On 20 September 1946, she married Walter Brindy Worboys, and had two daughters, Carolyn and Robin. She wrote romance and suspense novels from 1961 to 1999, under the pennames of Anne Eyre Worboys, Annette Eyre, Vicky Maxwell and Anne Worboys. She won the Mary Elgin Award in 1975, and in 1977 by her novel "Every Man A King" the Romantic Novel of the Year Award by the Romantic Novelists' Association. Living in UK, Annette Isobel Eyre Worboys died on June 2007 in Leigh, Kent, England.