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Sleeping with one eye open - by Helen Coneyworth-Smith (Paperback)

Sleeping with one eye open - by  Helen Coneyworth-Smith (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><strong><em>A child doesn't ask to be born; they are brought into the world by their parents</em></strong>. If they're lucky, that child is nurtured, fed, loved, and guided by their mother and father. They are given a home and shelter, an education, something to occupy them, and they are protected from the worst the world has to offer. </p><p>This wasn't the case for Helen. </p><p>Told even from an early age that she was a mistake, and forced to feel that she should apologise simply for existing, Helen was born to a mother who did not seem to want her. Her early life was a series of abuses, mental and physical, and a daily struggle to become something better than the model presented to her at home. </p><p>What do you do when the one person who is supposed to be your loving guardian is instead your greatest persecutor? What can a child do? For Helen, there was only one option: endure. She survived years of her mother's abuse, and her father's neglect, and tried as well as she could to look after herself and her younger brother, Matthew. </p><p>This is an affecting memoir about Helen's tumultuous childhood, a story about the rotten core that can lie behind an unsuspicious facade. For every picture-perfect family there may be a child next-door, barely surviving. </p>

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