The pressure of the secret about her father’s drinking caused Lorna harms. “What Stays in the Family” is a memoir by Lorna Crozier about how she was under pressure and affected negatively by her drunk father. Lorna carried the secret of her father since she was a child, “My father was a drunk. It brings me great relief to say that now because his drinking was the biggest secret of my childhood” (page 79, paragraph 3, line1-2). Her sentences shows how heavy and painful the secret was to Lorna.
When Lorna was a child, her mother told her that not to tell anyone about her father, “My mother never spoke about it to anyone but me, and I was warned not to tell amy friends” ( page 79, paragraph 3, line 2-3 ). Her mother’s words expressed that she