Kaleidoscope

Kaleidoscope, published in 1987, follows the three daughters of a French mother and an American GI father. After their father kills their mother and then himself, the girls are separated and raised in utterly different worlds.

Hilary, the eldest and the only one who remembers her sisters, passes through the sordid world of foster care before working her way up to become a New York news producer. Megan, the baby, is adopted by a comfortable family and becomes a doctor in rural Appalachia. Alexandra is raised in lavish wealth and marries a proud, pedigree-obsessed man who has no idea she is not her parents' natural child.

When the high-priced private investigator John Chapman is hired to reunite them, the lies and omissions that kept the sisters apart — and the family friend at the centre of them — are finally dragged into the light.