A heartbreaking memoir of how a mother's alcoholism destroyed her daughter's childhood
'I squeezed through the narrow gap and out into the hallway and I stood for a moment, unable to decide where to go. Should I make a dash for the kitchen, where my mother would be swigging from a bottle? Or should I run upstairs and try to find somewhere to hide? It was a choice I didn't really need to make, because there was no escape'
Anna Lowe grows up on the doorsteps of pubs, waiting for her mum to come out. Having to give up her bedroom to her mother's drunken friends. And regularly calling out the ambulance, after finding her mother unconscious and covered in vomit.
But it is when they move in with her mother's boyfriend Carl that things take the ugliest turn. Not only is he violent with her mother, but he also sexually abuses Anna from the age of six - destroying any semblance of normal childhood she had left.
Wake Up, Mummy is the heartbreaking true story of a little girl who eventually found the courage to break free from the past.
By:
Anna Lowe Imprint: Ebury Press Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 198mm,
Width: 126mm,
Spine: 20mm
Weight: 219g ISBN:9780091940515 ISBN 10: 0091940516 Pages: 320 Publication Date:01 June 2011 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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General/trade
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Undergraduate
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Primary
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
Anna Lowe is mother to three children, and today runs a successful business with her brother.
