
 |  |  |  | Mary Church in Sunday best, aged 6 (1920) |
 |  |  |  | Wearing Jeremy's mortar board at his graduation (1986) |
|  |  Mary Church and Me

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 In 1960 Susanne Hall was a busy mother who worked part-time, but in the fortuntate position of being able to afford to employ a nanny. The nanny she found was Mary Church who turned out to be something of a Mary Poppins figure, except that she stayed on even after the children had grown up. She lived in her own cottage and remained the much-loved and indispensable linchpin of Hall family life.
Then in 1987, Mary Church told Susanne a long-kept secret that threw the importance of their friendship into sharp relief. Susanne tells David Stafford how this revelation came about...
Mary Church - the story of a foundling by Susanne Hall from Groundnut Publishing ISBN: 0 9527141 5 9
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