Tom Hamilton is a twenty one year old just starting out at
Oxford. While he is unpacking his trunk, a photograph
falls out. The photo is of his mother, Annie, and a man
he doesn't recognize, but a man who someone thinks looks
enough like him to mistake him for the person in the
photo. The inscription on the back of the photo is signed
with a J. Tom calls his mother about the photo, and is
not thrilled with the answer she gives him. He makes it
his mission to find out about the man. He makes some
inquiries about his mother's life at college, and finds
out that she dropped out in 1970. He does the math and
realizes she was most likely pregnant with him. He looks
into the birth records and finds out that he has two birth
certificates. He looks into his parent's marriage
records, and finds out that they weren't married when he
was born. Is it possible that the man in the photograph
is his father and not Edward?
Annie Hamilton is taken aback by the reappearance of a
photograph that she had forgotten about. She remembers
the man in the photo, Jordan Hope, and tries to steer her
son away from his foolish notion that he may be his
father. Jordan Hope is now running for President of the
United States, and can ill afford the publicity brought on
by the rumor of an illegitimate son. Annie calls on Rose
Cassidy, a friend from her days in Oxford, and now an
editor of a New York magazine. Will their plan to stop
Tom run awry?
Robyn Sisman has written a truly enchanting tale. SPECIAL
RELATIONSHIP has three distinct parts. The first is the
emergence of the photograph in England in 1992. The
second takes us back to the sixties and the wild days at
Oxford. The third brings us back to 1992 and to the
States where Jordan Hope is running for president. I
enjoyed the whole story and how the trip back in time was
an integral part in the telling of the tale. The chapter
headings were fun, as were the crazy characters. SPECIAL
RELATIONSHIP is a charming story.
Renowned London literary agent Annie Hamilton never forgot
Jordan Hope.
And now he’s back. As the saxophone-playing United States
presidential
hopeful, Jordan is a constant reminder to Annie of their
whirlwind love
affair during the heady days of Oxford in the 1960s—and of
the secret
she’s kept ever since.
Comfortably married with
three
wonderful children, Annie thinks her life is complete. But
her son Tom,
now twenty-one years old, discovers Annie’s secret—and his
own shocking
connection to it. In tumult, Tom flees to Manhattan to try
to unravel
the past and confront the man who might be his father, with
no regard
for Jordan’s delicate political situation. Desperate to
explain, Annie
races after Tom...and straight into the arms of the man she
thought she’d
never see again.
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