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Coggin explains her refusal to confront her husband over his behaviour as the natural by- product of the fact that naval officers often kept odd hours and acted bizarrely. This is at best a partial explanation. She was clearly very much a 1950s woman, someone who felt women were there as an adjunct to men and that it would have been disloyal to challenge him. But more than this, she must have had a need to believe that everything was hunky-dory--a psychological denial, in fact--that enabled her to disregard the evidence in front of her.
It is the absence of emotion that is ultimately the most disturbing element of this book. Coggin was lied to from day one and had hers and her children's life wrecked by this man and yet she claims never to have felt angry or bitter about the experience. Indeed, she writes throughout with a strange calm, saying "why get angry about things you can't change." But since when did the emotions respond to rational suggestion? Similarly, even though the book is trailed as a true memoir, Coggin writes in the third person, with her name changed to Lilian and Dieter's to Carl. It is as though she needs to create an impersonality, a distance, between herself and her subject matter because she could not bear what she might find if she allowed herself to get too close. Given the subject matter, one can understand her hesitance, but one can't help feeling it would have been a better book if she had allowed the floodgates to open. But never mind. It's still well worth a read anyway, if only to get you thinking of what you might be turning a blind eye to at home. --John Crace
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