Cathy Mayes Interview 27 Oct 2021

Book Talk with Claire Harris

I'm talking to Cathy Mayes. Cathy is the author of Out of the Quill Box: Came Secrets of a family I had never known. This is the wonderful story of her search to learn about her past, her heritage, and her culture. Cathy, brought up in a ‘comfortable’ home in the 1950s, was, at the age of seven, suddenly told that she had been adopted as a baby and assured by her mum that the other mother who had given birth to her loved her, but had made the difficult decision that she would be better off being brought up by others. Having been told this at the age of seven Cathy seemed to take it in her stride, as children do, however, her early teens, she developed a heart condition and doctors felt information on her genetic background would be of help. You can listen in and find out more at https://www.booktalkradio.info/cathy-mayes