What Lies Beneath A Memoir Author:Elspeth Sandys Writer Elspeth Sandys was born during the World War II, the result of a brief encounter between two people who would never meet again. The first nine months of her life were spent in the Truby King Karitane Hospital in Dunedin, New Zealand, where she was known by her birth name, Frances Hilton James. This would change with her adoption into the ... more »Somerville family. A new birth certificate was issued and Frances James became Elspeth Sandilands Somerville. Tom and Alice Somerville, Elspeth's new parents, lived with their son John in Dunedin's Andersons Bay. While Elspeth was happy among the ebullient and welcoming Somerville clan, she had a difficult relationship with her adoptive mother, who was frequently hospitalized with mental health problems. Elspeth's search for her birth parents did not begin until much later in her adult life. What she discovered after an exhaustive search provided answers that were both disturbing and ultimately rewarding. Beautifully told, What Lies Beneath is a searing, amusing, and never-less-than gripping tale of a difficult life.« less