About the book: 2014 / “I got stuck in history again. As I write these lines, my hand is shaking. Spankings always scare me. I don't know how far mom will go this time. I’ll soon have blisters from the belt on my back and legs,” begins the diary that Eden’s mother kept from the age of thirteen until her death. Eden arrived at her old parents’ house after going through a difficult divorce. She wanted to understand herself and ask relatives about her mother, whom she practically did not remember. But I didn’t expect to be able to find my mother’s personal notes. What she read in the secret diary was striking in its frankness, shocked and, oddly enough, put everything in Eden’s life in its place... The book was also published under the title “Secret Lives”».