In June this year, I became a Facebook ‘top fan’ of an independent bookshop that opened earlier in the year in my home town of Grantham. This surprised me as I hadn’t set foot in the place! I loved the idea of a bookshop springing up on the high street, as Grantham is awash with cafes, charity, and barber shops, but nothing like this. The town needed it.

Gaynor Cherieann is an adoptee from the era when babies were taken from their birth mums because they were usually unmarried and often young.

She wrote her memoir about her adoption journey in the form of letters

Gaynor lives in Northampton with her husband and dog, she has four grown-up children and six grandchildren, and works part-time time which keeps her very busy.