Wake Up, Mummy

'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.

Préface
A heartbreaking memoir of how a mother's alcoholism destroyed her daughter's childhood

Auteur

Anna Lowe is mother to three children, and today runs a successful business with her brother.

Texte du rabat

'I made a dash for the hallway and then my mind froze. Should I dart into the kitchen, where my mother would be swigging from a bottle? Or should I run upstairs and try to fi nd somewhere to hide? It was a choice I didn't really need to make, because there was no escape'

Anna Lowe grew up on the doorsteps of pubs, waiting for her mum to come out. Giving up her bedroom to her mother's drunken friends. And regularly calling out the ambulance, after fi nding her mother unconscious and covered in vomit. But it was when they moved in with her mother's boyfriend Carl that things took the ugliest turn. He sexually abused Anna from the age of six - destroying any semblance of a 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.