Brando's Bride, Paperback

In October 1957 Marlon Brando married an Indian actress called Anna Kashfi. He was thirty-three and at the pinnacle of his fame, having recently won an Oscar for On the Waterfront. He could, and did, have any woman he wanted.

Anna Kashfi was twenty-three and pregnant. The day after the wedding, a factory worker living in Wales, William O'Callaghan, claimed that the woman who called herself Anna Kashfi was in fact his daughter, Joan O'Callaghan. He said she was a butcher's assistant from Cardiff. This book sets out to discover who was telling the truth and who was lying--and, perhaps more importantly, why?

Sarah Broughton has worked in the television industry for the last two decades. Her company, Martha Stone Productions, made the recent BBC 4 documentary Andrew Davies: Rewriting the Classics, and has various other film and television projects in development. Parthian Books published Sarah's first novel, Other Useful Numbers. She is currently completing a part-time PhD in Creative Writing at the University of South Wales