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When Kitty Came
To London
Teresa Pyott
KEY SELLING POINTS
Set in Orkney, Essex and London’s Docklands, it explores the friendship between the Linklater and Pyott
families.
A search into the lives of the Linklaters, seafarers and teachers, and the Pyotts, watch and marine
chronometer makers.
The author is the daughter of actors Sheila Raynor and Keith Pyott.
In 1952, Teresa Pyott’s father received an inheritance, including a London house, from a woman to whom he
was not related. Teresa’s parents, hardworking but modestly paid actors, found their lives transformed by this
change in their fortunes. Teresa had grown up with stories of ‘Aunt Catherine’ Linklater, as she was known in the
family, but it was only much later, after her father’s death, that she asked herself how this inheritance came
about. Was there a long-buried family secret to unravel? What was the connection between the Linklaters and
the Pyotts? Did it all begin when ‘Kitty came to London, a little girl,’ and, if so, when was that?
The search for the truth led Teresa to Orkney, Essex, London, an asylum, elementary schools, and seafarers
who voyaged to the Moravian mission settlements in Labrador and across all the world’s great oceans. In her
quest, she found tragedy and triumph against the odds in family stories spanning a century and found the
answer to the question she began with.
When Kitty Came to London is a captivating story about family secrets concealed in the past.
Teresa Pyott grew up in North London and Aldeburgh, Suffolk, and is the daughter of actors Sheila Raynor and
Keith Pyott. She was educated at boarding schools in Tunbridge Wells and France. After raising her family, she
went on to work in higher and further education. Now retired and living near Brighton, she enjoys her
grandchildren, researches family history and leads a U3A group called ‘Writing Your Life Story’.
Publication Date: 28th April 2024 £9.99 ISBN: 9781805143048
Thema subject category: WQY – Family history, tracing ancestors
paperback 198 x 129 mm 232 pp Portrait Author location: West Sussex
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