Sarah is Penelope’s daughter who moves to Australia. This breaks Penelope’s heart because, even though she often complained about her raucous grandkids, she realizes she’ll miss them when they’re gone. Like her brother, Adam, Sarah favors their father, Giles. This upsets Penelope, seeing as she was the one who raised them after the divorce. Sarah suggests that Penelope take the AncestryDNA test to find out more about her birth family and later helps her connect with her birth mother, Hattie.
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Sarah Character Timeline in Girl, Woman, Other
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Chapter 3: Penelope
...life together feels perfect. Her career is delayed by their first child, Adam, and then Sarah comes only a year later. Penelope is overwhelmed with love for her children and is...
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By the time Adam and Sarah leave home, Penelope and Phillip are living completely separate lives in the same home. Eventually,...
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...when one of her friends gets divorced, too. They become close and do everything together. Sarah supports her after her divorce from Phillip. Penelope phones her drunk to tell her she’s...
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Sarah still hasn’t found love, but tells Penelope that when she becomes a mother she’ll quit...
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A few years later Sarah has a family and her especially rowdy children bother Penelope when they visit. Sarah’s husband...
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Epilogue
A cancer scare renews Penelope’s curiosity about her birth parents. At Sarah’s suggestion, Penelope orders an Ancestry DNA kit and when the results finally arrive she’s shocked....
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Penelope Skypes Sarah to break the news. Sarah looks at the results and realizes that she has over...
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