Along Came a Spider (Web of Deceit Book 2)
Book Details
Author(s)Carole Ann Godfrey
ISBN / ASINB005ZD1Y4S
ISBN-13978B005ZD1Y42
Sales Rank507,315
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
"Along Came a Spider" is the autobiographical sequel to "A Superior Girl" and is the final part of "Web of Deceit".
'Ann Marie' is a little girl of nineteen months and just pre-speech. She is taken from her mother in one room, led into an adjacent room and handed over to a complete stranger who she is told is her 'mummy' and who then takes her home with her. Now add to this a life-time's insistence by 'mummy' that she really is the woman who gave birth to her. Thus was played out a charade connived in by all the adults involved in the child's life and which remained undiscovered until she was herself fifty years old.
Trapped in this 'web of deceit' in which all of the participants behave as if 'mummy' really is her mother she soon begins to fear that she is going mad and so, in an effort to hold on to her sanity, regularly brings to mind all the images she can recall from her past. As her new parents (especially her 'mother'), attempt to mould her into the new family she outwardly conforms, but inwardly fights their efforts. Eventually there comes a time when she realises that, in order to hold on to her sanity, she must stop dwelling on where her 'pretty lady' ( her birth mother) and her sister (personified in a doll) have disappeared to. Thus, by her early teens she reaches a state of mind in which she simultaneously knows in her deep subconscious but does not know in her conscious mind that she must have been adopted.
The effect of living 'in two minds' results in dreams and hallucinations which are at times terrifying and yet, such is her fear at exploring what lies behind the black veil in her subconscious mind, she is able to conceal her frequent inner turmoil and appear perfectly normal even to those who know her most closely.
When 'Ann Marie' finds her birth mother, 'Bella', two years before her death, 'Bella' is absolutely delighted to think that her story could be the subject of a book ('A Superior Girl') and tells 'Ann Marie' her life story - the adoption of her little daughter and the utter heartbreak of parting with her; a heartbreak which continued down the years until her wish to find her again before she died was granted forty-eight years later. All the thoughts and actions attributed to 'Bella' are as she expressed them.
This for me has been an incredible insight into the human mind, made somewhat eerie by the fact that it is my own! I found that truth was indeed far stranger than fiction.
'Ann Marie' is a little girl of nineteen months and just pre-speech. She is taken from her mother in one room, led into an adjacent room and handed over to a complete stranger who she is told is her 'mummy' and who then takes her home with her. Now add to this a life-time's insistence by 'mummy' that she really is the woman who gave birth to her. Thus was played out a charade connived in by all the adults involved in the child's life and which remained undiscovered until she was herself fifty years old.
Trapped in this 'web of deceit' in which all of the participants behave as if 'mummy' really is her mother she soon begins to fear that she is going mad and so, in an effort to hold on to her sanity, regularly brings to mind all the images she can recall from her past. As her new parents (especially her 'mother'), attempt to mould her into the new family she outwardly conforms, but inwardly fights their efforts. Eventually there comes a time when she realises that, in order to hold on to her sanity, she must stop dwelling on where her 'pretty lady' ( her birth mother) and her sister (personified in a doll) have disappeared to. Thus, by her early teens she reaches a state of mind in which she simultaneously knows in her deep subconscious but does not know in her conscious mind that she must have been adopted.
The effect of living 'in two minds' results in dreams and hallucinations which are at times terrifying and yet, such is her fear at exploring what lies behind the black veil in her subconscious mind, she is able to conceal her frequent inner turmoil and appear perfectly normal even to those who know her most closely.
When 'Ann Marie' finds her birth mother, 'Bella', two years before her death, 'Bella' is absolutely delighted to think that her story could be the subject of a book ('A Superior Girl') and tells 'Ann Marie' her life story - the adoption of her little daughter and the utter heartbreak of parting with her; a heartbreak which continued down the years until her wish to find her again before she died was granted forty-eight years later. All the thoughts and actions attributed to 'Bella' are as she expressed them.
This for me has been an incredible insight into the human mind, made somewhat eerie by the fact that it is my own! I found that truth was indeed far stranger than fiction.
