"This compassionate biography will tug at your heartstrings as it sees a woman with family connections to the Krays find hope through fleeing harrowing marital abuse. "
After sharing her own stories of childhood trauma and survival in her bestselling Don't Tell Mummy and When Daddy Comes Home memoirs, Toni Maguire now writes to give voice to others who’ve been through comparable experiences, with An Innocent Child relating Georgia Turner’s story of surviving a childhood lived in the shadow of addiction and escaping marital abuse.
Set in the East End — her maternal grandfather was an associate of the Krays and “Mad” Frankie Fraser — Georgia’s childhood was initially characterised by family gatherings filled with laughter and love. But everything changed for Georgia and her siblings when their “beautiful mummy” with sparkling eyes slipped into a destructive cycle of addiction in the wake of their father’s affair.
Later, Georgia’s dream that her husband would provide her with the all love she needed turned out to be a nightmare when she found herself trapped in a horrifically abusive marriage, with three children to care for.
Movingly related in Georgia’s warm, honest voice, An Innocent Child follows her journey to finding the courage to leave, leaving readers with the empowering hope-filled message that “it’s never too late to make a change…If you feel you’re at rock bottom, my message to you is that I’ve been there and there’s only so far down you can go until you have to come back up”.
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From bestselling author, Toni Maguire, comes a new story of trauma and survival.
Set against a backdrop of East End London, Georgia experienced a childhood few of us could imagine. Though brought up in a loving family,she watched her family break apart through deceit and her mother descend into heroin addiction.
Escaping into what she felt was a loving sanctuary, Georgia ended up trapped in a violent relationship with a man who would beat and abuse her. After having her three children by him, she knew she had to escape to finally find safety.
Now Georgia is sharing her story of survival to help others and prove there is hope even after trauma and heartache.
An Innocent Child features in the following genres: Biographies & Autobiographies, True stories of survival of abuse and injustice, Biography, Literature and Literary studies, True stories: general
An Innocent Child is available in Paperback
An Innocent Child was written by Toni Maguire and published by John Blake Publishing an imprint of Bonnier Books UK
An Innocent Child has 320 pages
£8.09
