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Neglected by her careless parents, Marianne turned to her neighbour, the one person that she thought she could trust….
Eight year old Marianne, the eldest of five children, was neglected by her slovenly mother and her violent alcoholic father. Uncared for and unkempt she was rejected at school by her peers and scarcely tolerated by her teachers. Only one person gave her the affection she craved; a neighbour who seeing the vulnerable child knew she was easy prey for his perverted desires.
‘Little Lady’ he called her over the few months he groomed her. Less than twelve months later she was caught in a trap of fear - if she talked she would be punished. With no one to turn to she kept ‘their secret’. At thirteen she fell pregnant.
Still too frightened to speak out she refused to tell the social workers who the father was. Without family support the teenager gave birth to a daughter in the unmarried mother's home.
Six weeks later the baby she had already grown to love was taken away for adoption. Marianne returned home, but the neighbour's abuse continued and a year later she was pregnant again.
This time her father literally tried to beat the baby out of her but she failed to miscarry. Scared for her life and that of her baby's she ran away from home carrying only a plastic bag stuffed with her few possessions.
Marianne who still missed her first child desperately struggled to keep her second daughter. Two months after the birth she realized that for the baby's sake she would have to hand her over for adoption.
Helpless is Marianne’s heartbreaking story as told the bestselling author of Don’t Tell Mummy.
Toni Maguire
Toni Maguire is a British writer who gained great fame in writing biographies and her autobiography "Don't Tell Mama" was her first book to be a bestseller in the UK in 2007, prompting her to release the second part of her autobiography "When Daddy Comes Home" which Maguire's fame cemented her first book. And the resounding success of her first two books, which were about her exposure to sexual exploitation by her father, encouraged many to tell their stories about Maguire's sexual exploitation, which formed her library on the subject, after which she publishes five additional books, all of which are biographies of individuals who were sexually exploited by their relatives. She is now in the process of publishing her first novel. After this journey of success in the world of personal bios.
Perhaps I have to clarify the difference between a CV and a personal biography. A biography is the story of the life of the writer himself.. he writes it in a narrative form that is somewhat similar to a novel.. while a personal biography is the story of the life of someone other than the writer.. he writes it in a manner that the writer deems appropriate.
This book is undoubtedly tragic. The fact that it is autobiographical rather than a novel enhances the emotional impact of its subject on the reader. This book expresses Maguire's chest, who was sexually abused by her father in her childhood for seven years, and these abuses began since she was six years old and continued until the age of thirteen and she had a miscarriage once.. At the age of fifteen she had committed Two unsuccessful suicide attempts.. She spent three years in a mental hospital for depression.
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