Helen Garlick
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Helen Garlick

Relationships, Parenting & Personal Development
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Helen Garlick specialised in talking solutions throughout her career as a family lawyer. Ironically, this was something that was not encouraged in her own family. When her brother David shot himself on the 28th of February 1981, Helen’s father Geoffrey fought to have the verdict of ‘suicide’ overturned. Then, when her mother Monica died in December 2017, Helen found some scribblings on the back of an old envelope about her having been ‘afflicted’ (her choice of word). Married for 59 years and a doting grandmother, nobody would have suspected that in reality, Monica was gay, but never admitted the truth about her sexuality. Helen later discovered that a long time family friend called Gwen had been her mother’s lover. “My focus was on meeting my promise to tell the story of my brother’s 20 years of life and how it ended. They say it takes you the rest of your life to figure out what happened in the first 20 years and then, because my mother made a confession on the back of an envelope that I read after her death, I had to write about that too,” says Helen.
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