Things just swirling around my head.

Am I really the product of this?

Astonishing secrets uncovered by at-home DNA tests.

Little did I know what more was to come.

I'm Jenny Clemen and in the new series of The Gift,

we'll hear more stories emerging out of the ever-expanding global DNA database.

They did know that I was different.

You had kids together.

Yeah.

Then you met.

Then we met.

The Gift.

Listen on BBC Sounds.

This is the BBC.

Hello, today I'm joined by the author John McGregor,

whose novels include, if nobody speaks of remarkable things,

even the dogs, which won the International Dublin Literary Award,

and most recently Reservoir 13.

And with John is Cathy Rensenbrink, erstwhile Books editor of the bookseller magazine and author of two non-fiction books, the last act of love about the life and death of her brother and this year's manual for heartache.

Kathy, would you start us off with your good read? It is what? It's Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively, and I've been in thrallel to this book for years and years.

I reread it quite often. It's about Claudia Hampton. She's a historian, and she's dying.

And as she lies in her hospital bed being patronised by nurses who call her deer and try to plump up her pillows. She decides to

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