Family Secrets
Author: Cohen, Deborah
ISBN: 9780141048574
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 26 Mar 2014
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback / softback
A gripping book about what families - Victorian and modern - try to hide, and why
On a Liverpool railway platform a heartbroken mother hands over her eight-year-old illegitimate son for adoption . . .
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
Publisher: Penguin UK
Year first published: 26 Mar 2014
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback / softback
A gripping book about what families - Victorian and modern - try to hide, and why
On a Liverpool railway platform a heartbroken mother hands over her eight-year-old illegitimate son for adoption . . .
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.
