'THE SECRET LIFE OF DOROTHY SOAMES: A MEMOIR' by Justine Cowan (Harper, 320 pages, $28).Growing up in the 1970s, Justine Cowan knew her mother had a secret. 'That was how I envisioned it — a hidden chamber tucked away in the recesses of my mother's twisted mind,' she writes in 'The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames: A Memoir.' Uncontainable, the secret 'would ooze out like a thick slurry ... covering our family in darkness.'Sometimes her mother, Eileen, claimed noble Welsh ancestry. An accomplished painter and pianist who said she had studied at London's Royal Academy of Music, she decorated the family's San Francisco-area home with Old World furnishings. Ambitious for her daughter, she pressed Cowan into crack-of-dawn violin lessons, hired a private handwriting tutor and insisted she learn to spell in the Queen's English ('theatre' not 'theater'). Publicly charming, she flew into rages at home, once throwing Cowan's dollhouse against a wall. Cowan rebelled, never sure what was wrong.One day, though, Cowan found her mother writing a name on a notepad: Dorothy Soames, Dorothy Soames, Dorothy Soames. …
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The Secret Life Of Dorothy Soames A Memoir Summary
THE SECRET LIFE OF DOROTHY SOAMES is a shocking, sad, and disturbing look at a foundling home of WWII era England where Cowan’s mother was raised, if you can call it that, and hopefully, a source of strength and compassion for others who have walked in similar shoes.
The Secret Life Of Dorothy Soames A Memoir
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