Fanchon's Daughter: a memoir

Faye Hueston was born in a Salvation Army Home for Unwed Mothers in Los Angeles, California. Adopted at 18 months, she was raised in a home of affluence as the daughter of Fanchon of Fanchon and Marco, the foremost producers of musical revues in the '20s and '30s. Bing Crosby, Myrna Loy and Judy Garland were some of the performers who got their start in a Fanchon & Marco revue. Fanchon also became the first woman film producer in Hollywood in the 1930s.

Faye grew up in the Hollywood of the '30s, becoming a film actress herself in the 1940s. However, she was always more interested in writing and books.

In her forties, while living in England, Faye embarked on a search for her birth parents, whose names she had discovered on her original birth certificate. Since the relationship with her adoptive father had been difficult, it was her birth father she most wanted to find. A friend sent her to the foremost medium in England, who told her that her father was dead, that he had been an alcoholic, and that he was filled with remorse for what he had done to Sarah. Three years later she found her birth mother through clues that came from the same medium. "Sarah" was the name of her birth mother, whom her father had abandoned when she became pregnant. None of this did Faye want to be true.

Months later, her private investigator's report confirmed the medium's clairvoyance. Three years later she found her birth mother through clues obtained from the same medium. How the meeting with Sarah ended forms part of Faye's story, which has many twists and turns along the way.