Karina's Reviews > The Secret Life of Dorothy Soames

Ok so the story of Dorothy Soames is an amazingly heartbreaking story. The story of the author, Justine Cowan, feels amazingly incomplete. As a mother to two small girls, it broke my heart to hear the cruelty Dorothy experienced as a little girl. I did feel like we were only hearing an extremely filtered part of Justine’s story, and never felt that we understood the root of her dislike of her mother. Which is fine, we aren’t entitled to all her inner thoughts, except oh wait! This is a memoir of her mother and their relationship. Anyways for those that like memoirs this is worth a read: 4 stars to the story of Dorothy but 1 to the revelations of Justine.