The Notebook which evoked buried memories of a mother and baby home in the 1960s

Being an unmarried mother sixty years ago was horrendous

Carole at 19

IT WAS only as I was writing the final book in the trilogy about the Two Js that I truly appreciated the significance of a small notebook I discovered among a pile of ‘stuff’ in a cardboard box while I was decluttering. That notebook contained details of my short stay in a London mother and baby home in the 1960s when I was pregnant and unma…