A Question of Paternity

<p><strong>NEW FROM ENVELOPEBOOKS</strong></p><p><span>David Tereshchuk leapt from a bleak childhood in a small town on the English-Scottish borders to a precocious high-flying career as a TV reporter, first in London, then in New York. </span></p><p></p><p><span>During his years as a journalist, he managed to elicit revealing statements from tyrants and the oppressed, but there was one person he never persuaded to open up to him: his mother.</span></p><p></p><p><span>He wanted to know just one thin who his father was. It wasn't until he was in his 50s that she confided to having been raped, aged 15, by a priest - and even then, not all her information was reliable.</span></p><p></p><p><span>Alongside his career, the search for his mother's abuser has haunted him, adding further layers of stress to a life already marked by alcoholism and insecurity.</span></p><p></p><p><span>This is his astonishing story, one that deserves to sit alongside those of Tom Brokaw, Peter Jennings and David Brinkley.</span></p>