A Question of Paternity

<p><strong style=color: rgba(119 119 119 1)>NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS</strong></p><p><span style=color: rgba(119 119 119 1)>David Tereshchuk leapt from a bleak childhood in a small town on the English-Scottish borders to a precocious high-flying career as a TV reporter first in London then in New York. </span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(119 119 119 1)>During his years as a journalist he managed to elicit revealing statements from tyrants and the oppressed but there was one person he never persuaded to open up to him: his mother.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(119 119 119 1)>He wanted to know just one thing: who his father was. It wasn't until he was in his 50s that she confided to having been raped aged 15 by a priest - and even then not all her information was reliable.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(119 119 119 1)>Alongside his career the search for his mother's abuser has haunted him adding further layers of stress to a life already marked by alcoholism and insecurity.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(119 119 119 1)>This is his astonishing story one that deserves to sit alongside those of Tom Brokaw Peter Jennings and David Brinkley.</span></p>