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'Secrets Never to be Told’ is an extraordinary story,
compellingly told, which unravels a century and a half of family
secrets. It reveals how being born illegitimate shaped the lives of
two women – one of them, the author. Starting with a letter
revealing a mystery inheritance, the author goes on a five-year
quest taking her from Victorian Cambridge to modern Vancouver. She
uncovers how her cousin Jessie emigrated to Canada, one of
thousands of female domestic servants exported as ‘surplus’
women before the First World War. Woven alongside the contemporary
detective investigation on the trail of one immigrant’s untold
story, is that of the author’s strange 1960s childhood of social
isolation in a Midlands city, obsessed with a world seen through TV
- and with the Beatles.
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