Finding Ian

5 December 1943

Stella Cameron was born on December 5, 1943 on the southern coast of England. As a young girl, Stella was a self-professed reading "addict", devouring all types of literature. "I grew up surrounded by a dear, but wildly dysfunctional family," Stella says. "Very early I learned to retreat from the raging, sometimes threatening demands of others into a gentler world -- my own. As a child and a young adult, books saved me because they helped free me while they entertained me. Those books were part of what I mean by 'my own world.' My love of reading always marched side-by-side with a love of writing. When the other children in my English classes watched the clock and prayed for the period to en…