Victoria Bond: Hello, my name is Victoria Bond. And in many ways my name represents the mystery I carry within myself. Victoria was the name of my paternal grandmother. I never met her and she died when I was two. Bond is the surname of my father who I knew only briefly. I met him for the first time when I was 12. He died when I was 19. In that time I didn't get to really know him since I was at boarding school and then college. Instead of having memories of these people I have their names.