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Article: SANDRA BROWN The traumatic discovery that inspired an extraordinary woman to dedicate her life to fighting the scourge of child abuse
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- Evening Times
- Article date:
- June 3, 2005
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WHEN she stands up on stage in a bold new play, called
womensbusiness, at the Soho Theatre in London at the end of this
month, Sandra Brown will be telling her story to a new audience.
It is an extraordinary story. As she says, quoting the late author
Iris Murdoch, 'Real life is so much odder than any book'.
However, Sandra will be seeing beyond the audience. "It will be
the conversation with my father that I never had, " she says quietly.
"I will be talking about the line of women I come from and their
strengths . . . but I think I have a double dose of strength because
I have been able to speak up about things my mother and grandmother
could not disclose because of their culture."
The ...