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100 1 _aSanders, Gayle.
245 1 0 _aMummy's witness /
_cGayle Sanders.
260 _aLondon :
_bHodder & Stoughton,
_c2007.
300 _a306 p. ;
_c24 cm.
500 _a"My mother the victim, my father the killer"--Cover.
520 _aGayle Sanders grew up in a middle-class household in an ordinary seaside town. But everything was not as it seemed.Her father viciously abused her mother and Gayle retreated into herself. The violence escalated and she witnessed horrifying scenes, including when her father deliberately burnt her mother's legs with boiling water.Her parents eventually separated and after an acrimonious custody battle, Gayle thought she was finally safe. But joy and relief twisted to terror as she witnessed her brutal mother's death at the hands of her father.But her ordeal didn't end there. After years of being shuttled from foster families to psychiatric units, Gayle had no one to turn to. At her most vulnerable, following one of many suicide attempts, she was attacked and raped by a male nurse.Yet Gayle survived to make a better life for herself. This is her heartbreaking and inspiring story.
600 1 0 _aSanders, Gayle
_xChildhood and youth.
650 0 _aAbused children
_zGreat Britain
_vBiography.
650 0 _aChildren of abused wives
_zGreat Britain
_vBiography.
650 0 _aChild witnesses
_vBiography.
650 0 _aChildren of murder victims
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