In this highly inspiring factual account, Jenni Shell traces the circumstances and consequences of traumatic events in two early childhoods: the one of her mother in the Edwardian era, and her own in the last years of the Second World War and after. Although her mother had been diagnosed with a form of schizophrenia, there were indications that she might have been silenced, and it became her daughter's heartfelt commitment to bring to light the 'truth' about what might have been a tragic misdiagnosis. Trying to understand her mother's suffering led the young woman to discover spiritual...