After her death I discovered Mum was a decade older than she claimed

A search for my Hungarian family’s immigration records gave me more information than I’d bargained for – and left lingering questions over my mother’s ageThe discovery of my mother’s big lie happened by accident. I had been mulling over ideas for a birthday present for her. Something personal; something that showed that I knew her like no one else.For most of our lives, we had had a tempestuous relationship. She was my hypercritical mother; I was her disaster o