Memoirs
of a hard-hearted daughter
Last year I found my mother's diary of 1936 and her photo album. It evoked a web of memories for me and my sister.
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My mother, I was told, was very beautiful.
She and my father were married in Kensington in 1935.
In November they sailed to the USA, an orientation to the new job with Technicolor UK. My mother was a few months pregnant, and in the end I was born there.
On the way home, my mother stayed with my godmother Theo, an artist. She wrote "I asked Theo if she would have Joanna in the event of .. war"
In England they moved into 'Third Sun House' in Amersham. This is where my sister Frankie was born in 1938, (Frances Emily)
They moved to Gerrards Cross, and my mother's friend Eileen came to stay.
She and my father fell in love.
My mother left and there was a divorce. A new phase in our lives started, and the days of my mother's photos and diary are finished.