In Martina Cole's gritty and compelling new novel, The Family, we meet the Murphys - a family riddled with secrets. But, as we all know, secrets always get revealed in the end...
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I DONT KNOW WHO MY DAUGHTER’S DAD IS. THERE’S 3 DIFFERENT MEN ALL COUSINS AS WELL
When I was about 5 I went behind the sofa and cut the elastic on the brand new Early Leanring Centre trampoline my parents had bought me – it unravelled the whole way around and despite my mum attempting numerous times to tie it together it was basically destroyed from what I had done. They never knew I’d cut it with scissors and always just thought it had snapped….!
I had a affair with my brother in law 20 yrs ago. 2 weeks ago it started again and I dont care who gets hurt this time
I was born in the wrong body. I’ve known since I was about 5 or 6, but never told anyone. I’m 26 now and don’t want to go on like this but how do I tell my family that their daughter/sister/neice is really their son/brother/nephew?
My husband had an affair 10 years ago with an East End girl 17 years younger than him, it didn’t last of course partly because he is OCD and her house and kid were dirty so he came back to his nice clean well ordered life and wife, after he had his fun and broken my heart. The funny thing is my SECRET: For years I have spit in his tea and coffee and doctored his dinners with ‘birdbath gravy’ and other unpleasant things, funny thing is he never gets a bad stomach.
i wish my mum dead every god damn day of my life and i’m not even ashamed.
husband thinks were have 5 kids truth be told only 3 youngest are his
my colleague is an old bag
My sister and I grew up with my parents while our oldest sister lived with my mother’s parents and my aunt in another town. I was never told why my oldest sister never lived with us. I always thought my oldest sister and I were very close because we seemed to always like the same books, movies, and music but I recently found out from my aunt that my oldest sister is nothing like she made herself out to be to me… it has been 40 years of lies. The person my aunt talked about was nothing like my oldest sister at all. I feel like I don’t know her at all.
I’ve been in a relationship for 18 years, and I’ve recently found he’s been cheating with a spanish lady and has 6 kids with her. I can’t bring my self to confront him ….
Got into debt and my husband bailed me out…now I’ve gone and done it again, to the tune of 25,000.
I have an overwhelming desire to experience prison life, but never been in trouble in my life. I blame Martina, I think it is the addictive reading.
just been reading some of the secrets, very interesting but i think mine would even shock jeremy kyle. I would very much like to know how to get an e:mail to martina cole though as i believe that writing a book based on someones true life experiences would be a best seller and i have more than a few to share. Believe me it would definately fly off the shelves!!!!!!
I was a spoiled child then sexual abused, my mum and dad went through a painful divorce that the whole estate knew about and I lived from 8 years old with my nan. I was top of all my classes at school until I met Dennis then it all went downhill from there, got into crime and now I’m living out of other peoples houses I have a 18yr old son who I raised until 14 then he went to his dad. I feel the pain of time I can never get back.
I slept with a family members ex husband. I was 16 and he was 32. I did it with him on more than one occasion – this was years ago and I was the one that jumped on him not the other way – and he wasnt my first sexual encounter either. I lost my virginity when I was 14 and the bloke was 19 years old.
Would love to live in some of Martina’s books! Sometimes my life & its daily trouble, problems aggro is a tad to much! Where are the men I read about Martina……
I have been having an affair for the whole 8 years I have been married and have no intention of stopping
The father of my baby left me when i told him i was pregnant, he’s never seen my gorgeous babe (mixed raced, he is white) interestingly, he has another older daughter who knows nothing about me or the fact that she has a half sister. I can’t wait for the day the two meet cos as we all know it all comes out in the wash doesn’t it Martina! (the best writer!)
I was brought up with two sisters. Then it was revealed one was only a half. Then it was revealed she had a full sister! so how many sisters do i have? 1, 1.5 ,2 or 3??
Last week, my ex-boyfriend and I met up. We’ve always been close. He’d just come home from contract work abroad. It’s now over. Some months ago we had sex. Ideally, I was supposed to tell him that I’m carrying his baby, but I couldn’t.
Also, instead, I insisted we stay friends (trying to form some kind of twisted revenge) (he dumped me), and said (lied) that I wanted nothing more, even though I know someone else (somewhat more good-looking) is trying to start something with him.
It was stupid, and I’m actually in love with him.
God help me.