‘You are a secret. It was a sin’

Intolerance of single mothers was a fact of life in Britain at the time, whether they were Catholic or otherwise

Andrew Pierce as he was then, and as he is now.
PHOTO OF ANDREW TODAY: NATASHA PSZENICK

LOOKING OUT OF the taxi, writes Andrew Pierce, I saw we were passing an imposing Gothic style Roman Catholic church. I said to my closest friend Amanda Platell, who was in the cab with me, “Margaret will be part of the congregation of that church.”

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