![]() ![]() "I felt like an act of something like that was needed to demonstrate my integrity as a writer and my sincerity as a person in writing about these things," said Johnston. In the afterword, he explains he struggles with obsessive compulsive disorder. Johnston knew even a fictional version of the story would reveal a big secret about his wife and her family, so in an a show of solidarity, he reveals his own secret it the book. It comes to light that the four were sexually assaulted by their father. Her Dutch-born father, Hans, lived in Amsterdam during the Second World War, and says he was in the Dutch resistance. The book tells the story of a man who falls in love with a woman who is the youngest of four daughters. "It occurred to me that for a writer not to write about this, even though knowing so much about it, would be almost exactly tantamount to sweeping it under the rug exactly the way that society does with sexual assault," Johnston told Matt Galloway on The Current. The Mystery of Right and Wrong is a story inspired by trauma his wife went through, growing up with a father who sexually abused his four daughters. It took three decades, and as many attempts, but author Wayne Johnston has finally published a work of fiction that's based on a family secret. ![]()
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