Secrets Never to Be Told : The true story of a windfall inheritance and a very personal investigation

Chesterton, Fiona

The Conrad Press（2021/11発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 336 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781914913204
• DDC分類 791.45092

Full Description

'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.

Contents

Contents

List of Illustrations 13
Prologue 15
Chapter One 29
Chapter Two 48
Chapter Three 64
Chapter Four 83
Chapter Five 100
Chapter Six 129
Chapter Seven 149
Chapter Eight 163
Chapter Nine 181
Chapter Ten 198
Chapter Eleven 217
Chapter Twelve 237
Chapter Thirteen 255
Chapter Fourteen 275
Chapter Fifteen 295

APPENDIX
Acknowledgements 315