India was born into a very poor family. She learned to love books by haunting the local library; a place of refuge after her father died when she was 8, and her mother had to work all hours to keep them together. Her career has spanned selling cosmetics; pushing advertising space; working behind a bar; employed by the Gas Board and finally! - the dream job. Buying books for the British Library! This is the first volume in the "Ties that Bind Us" family saga. A saga as you have never read before ....