Publisher's Synopsis
When my aunt Margaret died intestate in London a few years ago nobody in the family had seen her since the 1940's. The legal process involved in establishing our claim to her estate revealed some deeply buried family secrets. For example, who was my mother's father? Was he a soldier in the British Army killed in action in WW1? Why were my paternal grandparents buried in seperate parishes? What had happened to three siblings of my father's who I had never heard about? These and other questions are asked in a series of letters to dead relatives of mine, which actually reveal more about my own life than anything else.
