Summary
The reaction of Homes's adoptive parents is fascinating: they knew tiny nuggets of information about her origins, but they had glossed over them or considered them irrelevant - never consciously, but simply because it did not seem important at the time. Even Homes's adoptive mother had some idea of the circumstances : a young mother was giving up her daughter because she was having an affair with a married man who refused to leave his wife.
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Secrets and Lies
Secrets and lies The Mistress's Daughter: A Memoir A M Homes Granta, 238pp, £12.99
A M Homes is one of America's most private writers: so much so that until now she has rarely even revealed...See the full content of this document
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