Family Secrets

A Sunday Telegraph and Times Higher Education ''Book of the Week'', Deborah Cohen''s Family Secrets is a gripping book about what families - Victorian and modern - try to hide, and why.

In an Edinburgh town house, a genteel maiden lady frets with her brother over their niece''s downy upper lip. Would the darkening shadow betray the girl''s Eurasian heritage? On a Liverpool railway platform, a heart...