The Confessions of a Currency Girl

The Confessions of a Currency Girl by Carlton Dawe is about Florence's large and loving family, and a dreadful family secret threatening to overtake her world. Excerpt: «I AM not aware that I ever had any of that unnatural precocity which is supposed to distinguish the clever child, but I believe I must have been a very small thing indeed when my mind took its first impressions of this terrestrial sphere. What my age was at that particular time I have never been able to ascertain, though I have a most vivid recollection of my father's grand, sad face, seared with pain, as it were, and bronzed by the fierceness of the sun; of my mother, with her gentle ways and winning smiles…»