DOUBLE EXPOSURE

In this memoir, poet Brian Johnstone turns his eye on his 1950s childhood and explores his parents' lives before and during World War II. Two revelations lead him to free an elderly cousin from the burden of a lifetime’s secret, and to forge an enduring relationship with the half-sister he never knew he had. Brian ponders why he was never trusted with the truth and vividly evokes a post-war upbringing, under whose conventional surface so much was hidden.