On a Liverpool railway platform a heartbroken mother hands over her eight-year-old illegitimate son for adoption...A vicar brings to his bank vault a diary - sewed up in calico, wrapped in parchment - that chronicles his longing for other men...The one-year-old daughter committed to an institution and barely visited or referred to by her family ever again...In Family Secrets Deborah Cohen explores the extraordinary choices British families made in the past to protect their good name.
Whether it is hiding an adopted son's origins or the tangled attempts to prevent a divorce, Family Secrets exposes how we dealt with our shame - publicly and in our hearts.
| ISBN: | 9780141048574 |
| Publication date: | 6th February 2014 |
| Author: | Deborah Cohen |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 416 pages |
| Primary Genre | Family Drama |
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On a Liverpool railway platform a heartbroken mother hands over her eight-year-old illegitimate son for adoption...A vicar brings to his bank vault a diary - sewed up in calico, wrapped in parchment - that chronicles his longing for other men...The one-year-old daughter committed to an institution and barely visited or referred to by her family ever again...In Family Secrets Deborah Cohen explores the extraordinary choices British families made in the past to protect their good name. Whether it is hiding an adopted son's origins or the tangled attempts to prevent a divorce, Family Secrets exposes how we dealt with our shame - publicly and in our hearts.
Family Secrets The Things We Tried to Hide features in the following genres: Family Drama, eBooks of the Month, Fiction, Recommendations
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Family Secrets The Things We Tried to Hide was written by Deborah Cohen and published by Penguin Books Ltd
Family Secrets The Things We Tried to Hide has 416 pages
£15.29, reduced from £16.99. Print on Demand / Special Order.
