"This compassionate biography will tug at your heartstrings as it sees a woman with family connections to the Krays find hope through fleeing harrowing marital abuse. "
After sharing her own stories of childhood trauma and survival in her bestselling Don't Tell Mummy and When Daddy Comes Home memoirs, Toni Maguire now writes to give voice to others who’ve been through comparable experiences, with An Innocent Child relating Georgia Turner’s story of surviving a childhood lived in the shadow of addiction and escaping marital abuse.
Set in the East End — her maternal grandfather was an associate of the Krays and “Mad” Frankie Fraser — Georgia’s childhood was initially characterised by family gatherings filled with laughter and love. But everything changed for Georgia and her siblings when their “beautiful mummy” with sparkling eyes slipped into a destructive cycle of addiction in the wake of their father’s affair.
Later, Georgia’s dream that her husband would provide her with the all love she needed turned out to be a nightmare when she found herself trapped in a horrifically abusive marriage, with three children to care for.
Movingly related in Georgia’s warm, honest voice, An Innocent Child follows her journey to finding the courage to leave, leaving readers with the empowering hope-filled message that “it’s never too late to make a change…If you feel you’re at rock bottom, my message to you is that I’ve been there and there’s only so far down you can go until you have to come back up”.
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