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Skeletons Pour Forth From Closets
It is always remarkable when a notable person suddenly turns out to be more notable because of revelations about his or her really peculiar family history. Consider Jack Nicholson, for example, who was raised by his grandparents who misrepresented his mother (with whom he also lived) as his sister. A reporter let him in on the truth of his birth, which suggests that there are more pitfalls to fame than one can easily imagine.
An article in today's Guardian offers another, slightly happier, story. Apparently the British novelist Ian McEwan was rather recently united with a brother he did not know he had. His older brother, conceived when his mother had an affair with the man who eventually became his father (she was married to someone else), was a month old when McEwan's mother gave him away at a railway station. It is unimaginable to me, but the article shows both men to be quite free of rancor.
My husband always rolls his eyes when I try to describe the plots of 19th century novels. He finds them much too implausible to maintain his attention. But I have to say, "handed off to a childless couple on a train platform" is not so unusual in the England of Wilkie Collins.
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