Family Romance

I used to think that mine was the only family with unspoken secrets hovering in the background and spilling over into my psyche.

I learnt recently that I’m technically known as a second-generation Holocaust survivor, and it seems that Lanchester is the Roman Catholic equivalent. In this tell-all memoir, he reveals how his mother’s death precipitated his fact-finding, soul-searching investigation of his parents’ hidden lives and his own internal angst.