Britannia Street av Beth Cox

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<p>Sometimes you have to lose yourself to find yourself.<br><br>When life unravels for Beth after the break up of a long marriage, she finds herself reaching back for answers. Into her past as a troubled, pregnant teenager in a home rapidly falling apart. Into the life of her great-grandmother, using her skills as a researcher and psychoanalyst to find the truth behind family secrets.<br><br>Moving between past and present, through parallel stories of family disintegration and lives knocked off course, and exploring how secrets resonate with shame down through the generations, <i>Britannia Street</i> is a story of how a woman carries trauma to her family and the world. A story with which so many will empathise.<br><br>Will Beth be able to discover the lost parts of herself buried beneath the roles of daughter, wife, mother, nurse? <br>Can she learn to understand and forgive herself? <br>Will she emerge to find love again, and with who?<br><br>Sometimes we have no idea why we make the c