JUNE Barnes-Rowley discovered a secret her late mother Myrtle had kept from the family.

When Ms Barnes-Rowley was about seven or eight years of age, she snuck into her mother's wardrobe while she was out, and found something she knew nothing about.

So, she wrote a book in 2007 about the discovery, Whisper My Secret: A Memoir, to tell the world about her mother's confusing secret.

"I found an ol...