Silenced for half a century She had always been told her grandmother had died in India, but Carolyn Slaughter broke through a web of family lies to discover a frail but sane old lady living in a west London asylum

From: The Sunday Telegraph London | Date: August 29, 2004| Author: | Copyright information

In 1978 my grandmother came back from the dead. Her name was Anne Webb and she was my mother's mother. I'd always been told that she'd died in India, where my grandfather, my mother, my sister and I were all born.

I'd been asking questions about my grandmother from way back and the answers were always too vague to be convincing. My mother didn't speak about her own childhood, and if I asked her about my grandmother she'd just tell me she'd died when my mother was nine.

Eventually, in 1978, when my mother was descending into Alzheimer's, my questions became more urgent. Still no information; ...

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