No More Damned Secrets

After his mother's death, Paul Cornes discovered that the man who had brought him up was not his biological father. Unravelling the web of lies constructed by his mother with the collusion of her family, Paul discovered that he was a 'war child', the son of a Canadian veteran. He used public sources to trace his father and his North American roots back several generations. Although his father had died, Paul discovered that he had a half-sister and an extended family, into which he has been welcomed with open arms. This is his account of his journey of discovery.