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Trish Hinde’s wants the lasting message of her memoir to be that secrets are never a good thing.
She spent her childhood and much of her adult life not revealing her worst secret: that her father had sexually abused and raped her on multiple occasions. He told her to keep it a secret, and she listened to him.
In Not My Fault, which she wrote with Ann Cusack, Hinde details the horror of her father’s actions, but also the chaotic home life that went with it. One of six siblings, Hinde recounts the food shortages, the utilities being cut off and even the mysterious deaths—one after the other—of her guinea pigs, hamsters and rabbits.
Hinde’s sexual abuse only stopped once her father was sent to prison for the sexual abuse of another child. As time went on, she reported the abuse on four separate occasions—including in a school essay and in a letter to her social worker—only for the reports to be ignored. Finally, on the fifth report to police in 2020, she was taken seriously. In 2022, her father was convicted of rape, indecent assault and indecency with a child and sentenced to jail.
Now a mother to four children herself, Hinde writes that the most important thing was that someone listened to her, and believed her. She also knows that it was not her fault.
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‘What mattered was that someone listened to me. Someone believed me after 25 years. That means everything.’
Trish Hinde was sexually abused by her father from the age of six. Alone and scared, she internalised her trauma and began suffering from violent seizures.
Trish and her five siblings were neglected, often relying on neighbours for food and watching helplessly as bailiffs carried away their possessions.
In her early teens, Trish was promiscuous and often found herself in danger. Two decades later, after realising her past was damaging her marriage, she decided to go to the police. This time, at last, they listened.
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About Trish Hinde, Ann Cusack
Trish Hinde is 35 years old and lives in Droylsden, Manchester. She is a married mum of three young children and works as a complaints manager. All her life, she believed it was not her father’s fault that he raped her; that he was simply: ‘made that way.’ Only now, after the conviction, is she finally able to see the abuse for what it is and move on with her life with purpose.
Bestselling author and journalist, Ann Cusack has ghost-written nine memoirs, all of which have been original material self-sourced and developed. Ann has previously written several bestsellers for Mirror Books including Groomed by a Gang and Abandoned.
Living and working in Manchester, where she was born, she has a long track record of following stories and working with ordinary people who have found themselves thrust into the spotlight by extraordinary events.
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