Things My Mothers Never Told Me

Im Six Years Old And Having A Life Crisis. Are You My Mummy? Is The Question I Could Never Ask Because I Love Both My Mothers Equally: Tyna The Tiny One And Bigga Who Is Bigger. I Havent Got A Daddy Either And It Seems Rude To Ask.. This Is A Sharp And Entertaining True Story Beginning In War-Torn London Of How The Author Navigated Her Way Through Family Passions And Oddities Secrets And Multiple Identities. On The Way She Encounters A Christmas Pudding Sent Annually Care Of The Bank Of Scotland; Sitting On A Tutors Cat During A Cambridge University Interview; Running The Family Corner Shop As A School Girl; Discovering A Cache Of Beautiful Postcards From All Over Europe; And The Seaside Wedding Of One Of Her Mothers. One Of My Mothers Is Has Yet Another Stroke. Im By Her Side When The Consultant Points To A Scar On Her Belly And Asks Her What It Is. Silently She Raises Her Hand And Gestures Towards Me. A Caesarean Section All Those Years Ago. I Am Her Daughter. We Never Speak Of It.After Bigga And Tyna Died I Begin A Paper Trail To Find News Of My Father. One Morning I Walk Across Westminster Bridge To Meet A Half-Sister. I Have Been An Only Child For 50 Years. Over Lunch I Discover That I Am The Sixth Of Seven Siblings Born To Four Women - And I Have A Famous Swiss Grandfather.. The Book Ends By Tackling Some Questions Im Often Asked Such As: Were Your Mothers Lesbians? Does A Child Need A Father? Is The Past Good For You? Do Therapists Help?