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Peters, Anya.
Peters, Anya -- Childhood and youth.
Adult child abuse victims -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Adult child sexual abuse victims -- Personal narratives.
Adult child abuse victims -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Abused children -- Great Britain -- Biography.
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Abandoned : the true story of a little girl who didn't belong /
Anya
Peters
.
by
Peters
,
Anya
.
HarperElement, 2007.
Call #:
362.764 P481a
Subjects
Peters
,
Anya
-- Childhood and youth.
Adult child abuse victims -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Adult child sexual abuse victims -- Personal narratives.
Adult child abuse victims -- Great Britain -- Biography.
Abused children -- Great Britain -- Biography.
ISBN:
9780007245741 (pbk.)
Alternate title:
True story of a little girl who didn't belong
Description:
viii, 312 p. ; 23 cm.
Summary:
"Separated from her real mother at birth,
Anya
grew up in terror of her drunken bullying uncle. Beaten, humiliated and sexually abused by him from the age of six, she thought her life couldn't get worse. But one day it did."I was used to Daddy screaming 'whore's child' at me, over and over again. But I couldn't get used to what he made me do."
Anya
was too terrified to tell anybody about what her uncle did to her. But then he got careless and started abusing her in front of the other children. When her brothers started calling her a 'whore',
Anya
cracked and all her terrible secrets came pouring out.
Anya
had always coped because there was one woman who loved her deeply, her 'Mummy'. But this time love was not enough. One morning 'Mummy' just left. Determined to make a new life,
Anya
buried her feelings and tried to move on. But when she ended up homeless, living in her car, she knew she had to face her past if she was ever going to find happiness and security again. Abandoned is
Anya
's inspirational story of her fight to find love, acceptance and a place to belong."--From publisher.
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