By Sean Rubinsztein-Dunlop
ABC [United Kingdom]
September 22, 2006
http://www.abc.net.au/news/arts/articulate/200609/s1746482.htm
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Britain's number-one best-seller on the non-fiction shelves, a searing indictment of the Church's role in child abuse, is facing allegations from the writer's family that it's completely made up.
Don't Ever Tell was said to be a real-life account of personal victory over a childhood scarred by drug and sexual abuse.
The brothers and sisters of author Kathy O'Beirne have thrown doubt on the account of her childhood in Ireland, saying her "perception of reality has always been flawed".
The claims follow similar allegations of fraud in James Frey's drug rehabilitation memoir A Million Little Pieces and Norma Khouri's faked account of honour killing, Forbidden Love.
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