English writer and broadcaster, Melvyn Bragg (b. 1939), writes in his recent memoir Back in the Day (2023) that his mother grew up in foster care.

Says Bragg:

“… my grandmother…was not my grandmother at all; she was not my mother’s real mother…I did not discover the truth of this until I was into my teens” (5).

Bragg’s mother was fostered as an infant after her mother was chased out of town for having a child out of wedlock. The aunts and uncles he grew up with were often the other former foster children of Mrs Gilberton, including Andrew who lived with Melvyn and his parents until Melvyn was about 13 years old.