Precious Williams, (pictured), the daughter of a Nigerian princess, was given away by her mother when she was three months old, and brought up by a private foster carer who answered the advertisement looking for someone to take a young baby in a 1971 issue of Nursery World.
The book, Precious: A True Story, tells of how her mother moved to England from Nigeria, married a man from Sierra Leone and became pregnant, before the relationship broke down.
A 57-year-old woman who had been a private foster carer for a long time took the baby in.
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