One of the Family

This memoir begins with the emergence of a secret. At the age of 46 and five weeks after the death of her mother, the well-known Hollywood columnist and writer Sheilah Graham, Wendy Fairey learned that her true father was the philosopher A. J. Ayer. She had known Freddie Ayer since she was eleven, admiring him far more than her putative father, Trevor Westbrook, the man Sheilah Graham had married to legitimate her baby.