![]() ![]() Kerry clearly questioned her own ability to be able to love and nurture another human being after her own experiences. ![]() ![]() Not her mother, the boyfriends, or the many teachers in all the different schools Kerry attended (apart from those at Hetton-le-Hole who seemed to recognise that something was very wrong. I felt angry that no one seemed to take responsibility for her safety and well being. All very different to Kerry's experience. I grew up in a poor household but there was plenty of love and food, and I felt wanted. It made for uncomfortable reading and I found myself comparing my own childhood with Kerry's. I cannot resist a book with a map and this one was fascinating with some place names in bold typeface (these were the towns that she lived in throughout her childhood) and dotted lines with arrows which I discovered were the routes she and her mother travelled, either to escape from or to join one of her mother's boyfriends. The first thing I noticed on opening this book was the map, four pages in. This is a memoir of a girl growing up in acute poverty who revisits the many locations that she lived in throughout her childhood and views them from a new perspective. ![]()
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