Christine Joanna Hart Knihy

Christine's childhood was utterly desolate. Chrisitne was abandoned as a baby on the wintry doorstep of a convent. The little girl longed for a real family and she was ready to adore her new mummy and daddy when they adopted her, but family life turned out to be the start of a new nightmare. When she was 13, her parents sent her back to the orphanage. It was this act of betrayal that pushed her to breaking point. Chrisitne began a desperate quest for her real father, the only parent she felt had never let her down. A twisted path of wrong turnings finally brought her face to face with Ian Brady, the notorious Moors Murderer. It was a chilling encounter, alone with Brady, that forced Christine to confront reality and allowed her to reclaim her life. She launched a career in the glamorous and dangerous world of spying but there were many more years of heartbreak before she eventually found peace through her work in journalism and by giving her son the loving family life she never knew herself.