Camellia

Camellia Norton's father died when she was six and since then her mother has squandered their remaining money on drinking, men and partying. Now fifteen, Camellia is orphaned when her mother's body is fished from a river in rural Sussex. Discovering letters that look like her mother was trying to blackmail some men she claimed were Camellia's real father, Camellia runs off to London to start a new life. There she is drawn into the swinging sixties and the new way of thinking, drugs and free love. Hitting rock bottom is the only way Camellia will turn to the letters again and the search for her real birth father.

This author can do no wrong as far as I am concerned - just love her books!

Back Cover Blurb:
Camellia Norton is orphaned at fifteen when her mother's body is fished from a river in rural Sussex. And when she discovers a cache of letters amongst her mother's effects she realises that the past that she has always been so sure of has been built of a tissue of lies.
Devastated, she runs away to London, and loses herself in a metropolis that offers opportunity, temptation and danger, especially to a young girl hungry for love and acceptance.
But her past won't stay buried forever and eventually Cameliia begins the long journey towards uncovering the truth about her background and also, ultimately, about herself.