Sins of Omission. Chapter One. South London in the late 1940s.
I was born in West Norwood at my grandmas house on 26th September 1948. I think I was born at midnight. My mum was a civil servant at the Ministry of Works-yes it does sound like something out of Harry Potter! She had met my dad, a naval officer during the war. But now he wasn't a naval officer because the war had ended and he was either working on the docks or training at Acton to be a telegraphist with Cable and Wireless. But Im getting ahead of myself. My birth was a shock! I suppose every birth is a shock but mine was for many reasons. My dad was actually married to someone else, to Joan Macanally in Wallasey. He also had another daughter Eileen, born 29th August 1946, but I wasn't to learn this until about 23 years later. So my birth was shameful. It was so shameful that my dads name wasn't on my birth certificate and was added at a later date. I was born at my grandmas in West Norwood, 27 Wolfington Road, in the first floor back bedroom that I think had been my mums