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Zusatztext Widely regarded as the best British contribution to what's often called the "misery memoir" genre. Informationen zum Autor Constance Briscoe practises as a barrister and in 1996 became a part-time judge - one of the first black women to sit as a judge in the UK. She lives in Clapham with her two children! Martin and Francesca. Her partner is Tony Arlidge QC. Klappentext Updated paperback edition! now including details of Briscoe's court case against her mother. Over 400!000 copies have been sold to date! and these new details are bound to generate the same amount of interest from newspapers and magazines. Zusammenfassung Constance's mother systematically abused her daughter! both physically and emotionally! throughout her childhood. Regularly beaten and starved! the girl was so desperate she took herself off to Social Services and tried to get taken into care. When that failed! she swallowed bleach 'because it kills all known germs and my mother always told me I was a germ'. When Constance was thirteen! her mother simply moved out! leaving her daughter to fend for herself: there was no gas! no electricity and no food. But somehow Constance found the courage to survive her terrible start in life. This is her heartrending - and ultimately triumphant - story! now with fourteen extra chapters detailing the trial.
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