![]() ![]() In fact, when Brooks told her mother years later that she had been sexually abused as a young girl by a neighbor, Rude indicated that perhaps it wasn’t the man’s fault because maybe her daughter led him on. ![]() The novel is a window into the remarkable, often painful life of Brooks, whose mother, Myra Rude, didn’t want children she once said that any “squalling brats” she had could raise themselves. Cora sees the trip with Brooks that summer as a chance to break away from the confines of her life and to discover information about her own troubled childhood in New York City. Moriarty changed Mills’ name to Cora Carlisle in “The Chaperone.” In the novel she’s a housewife and mother of twin teen sons whose seemingly happy life in Wichita was a facade because of a secret she harbored about her husband. ![]()
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