Patricia Cornwell
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744 appearances
2 recordings
2 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 30 Jun
Patricia Cornwell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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The Book Review · Patricia Cornwell on Her Dark Childhood and Best-Selling Novels · 8 May 2026
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And she was standing out there with a long skirt on and a shawl, holding it against the cold, with her hair kind of all pinned up, as I remember.
And Mr. Rickman leads us into the house, and we sit in front of her fireplace room.
And I don't remember what all my mother said to her, but no doubt my mother was talking about Florida and how she had to come here and why she moved here because of Ruth's husband.
And by the way, Ruth had heard this from all kinds of disturbed people trying to come up to her house.
This was not new.
But this time it was a neighbor.
And my mother handed Ruth a note and said, there's going to be a great flood and I'm sailing away on a ship.
Please raise my children in your kingdom.
Ruth obviously couldn't keep these three strangers.
She had five children and Billy, and that just wasn't going to happen.
But they did arrange for people who had retired missionaries from the Congo had agreed, had volunteered to take care of us.
And while I am so appreciative that they did that, it was an absolute nightmare.
It was something that shaped my life forever, was the foster mother.
That was what I thought was a novel, but it was a thinly-deveiled autobiographical.
When Ruth said, you know, I'd come out of this hospital, and yes, I'd gone to church.
I couldn't stand to sit there.
All the neighbors were staring at me because now I would have been in a psychiatric hospital just like my mother had been.
So, oh, I must be, you know, my fate seemed to be sealed.
Of course, the eating disorder is a very different thing, but even so, I was very depressed.
I felt hopeless.
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