Family Secrets. The Things We Tried to Hide, Paperback

On a Liverpool railway platform a mother hands over her eight-year-old illegitimate son for adoption... A vicar brings to his bank vault a diary - sewed up in calico, wrapped in parchment - that chronicles his longing for other men... This book explores the extraordinary choices British families made in the past to protect their good name.

• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Author(s): Deborah Cohen
• Illustration(s): 16 pp b/w photographs
• Number of pages: 416
• Publication date: 2014
• Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 26
• Cover type: Paperback / softback