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Don't Tell Mummy: A True Story of the Ultimate Betrayal | 
 enlarge | Author: Toni Maguire
Publisher: Harper Element
Category: Book
List Price: $19.01
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Avg. Customer Rating:  1 reviews
Sales Rank: 966936
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 320
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 8.5 x 5.5 x 1.3
ISBN: 0007223749
EAN: 9780007223749
ASIN: 0007223749
Publication Date: August 7, 2006
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Product Description
This heart-wrenching memoir from Toni Maguire tells the deeply moving story of an idyllic childhood that masked a terrible truth. Underneath her mother's gentility and her father's roguish charm lay horrifying secrets, which eventually led to their only child's near destruction. The first time her father made an improper advance on Toni, she was six years old. When she finally built up the courage to tell her mother what had happened, her mother told her never to speak of the matter again. When the assaults grew worse her father warned her not to tell her mother, or anyone else, because they would blame her and wouldn't love her any more. It had to remain 'our secret.' At fourteen, Toni fell pregnant by her father and for the first time shared her terrible secret. But just as her father predicted, everyone blamed her. Although he was eventually sent to prison, Toni continued to suffer, almost dying from a botched late abortion. She found herself judged and rejected by her family, teachers and friends, forced into a world of depression and madness with only herself to rely on if she ever hoped to build a happy life.
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Heartbreaking October 11, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
An emotional, heartbreaking journey through Antoniette's childhood, molested and raped by her very own father. A string of crimes perpetrated repeatedly for several years under her very own mother's nose, who deliberately chose not to see, adding to the psychological side of the torture. The bottom line is, how could it all be? Unfortunately, it just was.
Strictly speaking about the narrative, I believe that the sense of helplessness and hopelessness conveyed by the voice of the child Antoniette, combined with her solitude, innermost feelings, fears and desperation are very well depicted. I can only hope that Ms. Maguire found it therapeutic to write down her memories. One would hope that by reading her book the awareness of the general public becomes higher and that victims and abusers of similar crimes find the courage to face and speak about it, and get the necessary help.
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