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Never Call Me Mummy Again

Peter Kilby

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English
Penguin Books Ltd
21 August 2013
The heartbreaking story of a little boy's abuse at the hands of his evil stepmother

To stop him from running away Peter's stepmother did something unthinkable...

Peter was just a toddler when his mother tragically died, having tried to abort a child that they simply couldn't look after. In rural Gloucesteshire in the early 1940s, Peter's family lived in poverty. It wasn't long before his father introduced a new woman into their lives, his mistress Flossie. On meeting her, Peter made a mistake- he called her 'Mummy'. Dragged outside, trampled on and shouted at, Peter never made that mistake again.

Thus began a childhood of terrible abuse from which Peter tried time and again to run away from. The arrival of a new sister who was treated like a princess only served to intensify the harm towards Peter. After running away one time too many, Flossie pulled Peter into the bedroom that he shared with his brothers and sister and banged nails through his small feet into the floorboards, crying ""There, that will teach you!"". Thrown from a window, forced to hold his hands against a burning stove, the catalogue of cruelties continued until finally, Peter was able to escape once and for good.

In this, his heartbreaking yet ultimately profoundly moving and uplifting memoir, Peter recounts a childhood like no other and a stepmother from hell.
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Imprint:   Penguin Books Ltd
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 17mm
Weight:   191g
ISBN:   9781405909297
ISBN 10:   1405909293
Pages:   272
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Peter Kilby was one of the entrants in the hugely successful Penguin and Saga Magazine life-story competition. This is his first book.

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