Summary
How do you tell your newly-found sister that her father was so violent, his first wife killed her baby so he wouldn't find out? That's just one of the dilemmas David Lewis faced as he researched his family history. The respectable BT worker and magistrate knew his father, George Ernest Glyndwr Lewis, was a troubled man - a career soldier, drinker and bully.
But nothing prepared the 52- year-old, a father of two, for the discoveries he made 30 years after his Bargoed-born father's death.See the full content of this document
Extract
My Secret History
In a battered old briefcase, he found a newspaper cutting revealing his father's first wife had been prosecuted for infanticide after a wartime affair with a Canadian soldier.
Also in the briefca...See the full content of this document
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