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In this award winning book, Drusilla Modieska sets out to collect the evidence of her mothers life. But when the facts refuse to give up their secrets, she follows the threads of history and memory into imagination. There she teases out the story of Poppy, who married at twenty and song to her children, until suddenly one day in 1959, she was taken away to sanatorium. What had gone wrong in family that everyone described as happy? What pulled Poppy through the years of shock treatment and despair? These are some of thequestions the daughter must ask before she can make peace with her own past.