I was determined to succeed

In 2005, I wrote a book called Baggage, a memoir about growing up and why I didn’t get on with my mother. Recently, I added a new chapter reflecting on how I now feel about that relationship, and that has turned into a one-woman show about my strange family background. I grew up in a very secretive household. My mum hardly talked about her life before she met my dad, or even how she met him. She’d been married before, but I never met her first husband, and I still don’t know much about their rel...