Secrets Exposed

Life and secrets of Elizabeth and Margaret, who had been best friends since their birth in 1936, despite their different backgrounds, upbringing and personalities. Life and secrets of Elizabeth and Margaret, who had been best friends since their birth in 1936, despite their different backgrounds, upbringing and personalities.Elizabeth and Margaret grew up together, in Devon, where Elizabeth lived and Margaret was evacuated to, during the war. After the war their lives separated for a few years before they joined together again.As they married and had children secrets started to emerge, some small, some bigger, ending in a large one never to be told.Secrets discovered include homosexuality, illegitimate children, and missing families.The book opens with Margaret's wedding to Peter, who her mother had rescued from the London bombings and sent him to live with Elizabeth and her family, he remained there after war. The day after the wedding, Peter discovers the truth behind the blooded sheet of her wedding night to her first husband, Hugh.At the wedding of Charles, Margaret's widowed husband, to Susan, Edith was involved in a purposeful accident which led to the discovery of her late brother's illegitimate daughter.When Xavier was 5 a letter came confirming his place at Eton that September. Margaret did not want him to go, Peter intervened and it was delayed until he was 11. He found out that Margaret's late husband had done this. Peter had to explain that her Hugh was planning to leave her for his lover, Howard.Margaret and Peter were invited to Margaret's nephew's christening, Hugh's brother's son. At the christening Peter was roped in as a replacement godparent. Because Hugh's brother was an MP the christening was covered in the local media. It was this that lead Peter's estranged father made contact and the mystery of his disappearance revealed. This in turn lead to the discovery of his mother's family, who she had run away from.Elizabeth's uncle, her father's brother, and his wife had adopted two girls, they also had a son. When the older girl turned twenty one she wanted to find her natural parents. This made the other daughter want to do the same. The second daughter did discover her parents, which caused shock waves through the family.The book closed with the wedding of Elizabeth's daughter, Chloe marrying Xavier.

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