Times of Chances

London-Duisburg-Düsseldorf-Sydney

My real name is Shirley Ann Schneider, my first novel "Times of Chances" takes up part of my own biography. It's about how I managed to find my biological father in Australia long before the Internet era using only conventional means of communication.

Since this story is very unusual, and some fateful, fitting coincidences also played into my hands, I decided to finally write and publish it under my pseudonym Caroline Milliner.

I was supposed to be called Caroline, and the last name Milliner is that of my adoptive mother, which I also had to take over as my new birth name a few years ago.

In a frame story and in flashbacks, I tell many phases of my childhood, youth and early adult life, and how everything came together.