Each year Alex celebrates his finding day rather than his birthday as he was found abandoned, at the age of 5 months next to Cleopatra's Needle on the Embankment. On his eleventh finding day, Alex meets Mrs Angel, whose daughter disappeared 11 years ago and looked a bit like Alex. When Mrs Angel dies she leaves her fortune to Alex convinced that he is her grandson. Once the local papers get hold of the story Alex's family is pestered by reporters and Alex feeling it's all his fault, runs away. In this exciting story Alex is just as much a member of the family as the biological children of his parents although his gran struggles to accept this. Her actions cause unnecessary emotional harm which the family have to resolve.