My mother gave me away to the cleaner’s sister at six weeks old. She never wanted me – I cannot now grieve her death: After a loveless childhood SUSANNAH JOWITT admits the unthinkable

For the past few weeks, I have been wearing a necklace that was a gift from my mother, Juliet, on my wedding day.

She repurposed a brooch she herself had inherited into a pendant for me: a finely-wrought gold dragon holding a glowing red little…