‘we were a shameful, dirty secret’

Watching the band up on stage, I felt so proud. ‘That’s my dad,’ I boasted to my friends as he drummed along to rock music. Aged 10, I loved going to his gigs. I’d tag along to rehearsals and knew all

My own mum despised me from the moment I was born

A f ter my great-aunt Monica’s funeral, I ...

Ruth Appleby, 61, never got over losing her daughter, but decades later she uncovered something shocking…

I’d grown up wondering why I looked so different from my family. But it took 35 years to discover the truth.

I thought I’d never tell a soul what happened in that graveyard