The unforgettable memoir of a family betrayed by a cruel deception.
Pauline Dakin, a well-known CBC journalist, spent her childhood on the run. Without warning, her mother twice uprooted her and her brother, moving thousands of miles away from family and friends. Disturbing events interrupt their outwardly normal life: break-ins, car thefts, even physical attacks on a family friend. Many years later, her mother finally revealed they'd been running from the Mafia and were receiving protection from a covert anti-organized crime task force.
But the truth was even more bizarre. Gradually, Dakin's fears give way to suspicion. She puts her journalistic training to work and discovers that the Mafia threat was actually an elaborate hoax. It was a web of lies fabricated by the man she regarded as a stepfather-a respected United Church minister. Her beloved mother was in love with the minister, a man whom Dakin reveals as deeply delusional and manipulative.
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