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David Leitch: Family Secrets
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An Olde Crone | Report | 15 Jul 2006 17:59 |
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Has anyone else read this book? See below in a min. OC |
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An Olde Crone | Report | 15 Jul 2006 18:04 |
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I have just read this book in an afternoon - has anyone else read it? Does anyone know if he ever found his half-sister? For those who havent read it, David Leitch is a journalist, now married to Rosie Boycott. He discovered that he was adopted and wrote a book called God Stand Up For Bastards, in the 1970s. His birth mother got in touch when she read the book and they had an uneasy relationship for 7 years, during which time he discovered he had a full sister, but his BM would never allow them to meet. BM died unexpectedly, he met up with his sister and she told him she thought there was another child. They searched BMDs and found evidence that there was a younger sister. The book was written in 1984, when the law did not allow them to find her. I am consumed with curiosity - did they ever find her? OC |
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An Olde Crone | Report | 15 Jul 2006 20:06 |
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Thankyou for replying, Elizabeth, I was starting to feel like an idiot....LOL. Yes, it is a shame, my parents and grandparents were very secretive people, desperate to hide family scandals which turn out to be almost laughable by today's standards - divorce and someone converting to Roman Catholicism being but two! OC |
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