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Yet, despite numerous official reports of abuse from social workers and health boards, their suffering continued ...

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But how else do you cope when your mentally ill mother has killed your little brother and sister by scalding them with boiling water

This is a harrowing true story of how one little girl endured the most tragic of childhoods.

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When Jeremy Hardy decided to explore his ancestry it was, in part, to get to the bottom of his grandmother Rebecca's dubious claims that the family descended from a certain 17th-century architect and that, more recently, Jeremy's great-grandfather was a Royal bodyguard.

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The intensely moving memoir of Patrick Maguire, one of the Maguire Seven, wrongly imprisoned as a teenager for making bombs for the IRA.

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In 1954, in Orlando, Florida, nine-year-old Pat Conroy discovered the game of basketball.

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A memoir of how a young woman descended into the world of prostitution and drug abuse, yet found the strength to rebuild her life. Rhea Coombs grew up with a hippy mother who always moved house and lived in a succession of squats and communes before settling in Bristol. In Bristol, Rhea had her first introduction to drugs, pimps and prostitution.

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In this comic memoir with a mission, Decker defines his life of medical drama as a hemophiliac who has contracted HIV from tainted blood products.

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In Nearly Famous, The Cat writes hilariously of the many famous people he has worked with - everyone from Colin Cowdrey, Bobby Robson and Terry Venables to Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, Billy Connolly, Eric Morcambe and Brian Johnston - and the highs and lows of that most serious of businesses: making people laugh.

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It is only when long-buried memories from her own childhood start to surface that Ellen realises the terrible truth about her two young daughters: Carolina and Amy are being sexually abused by their father. This title chronicles Ellen's hard-won battle to create a place of safety and love for herself and her daughters.

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Given away by her mother at five months old, raped on the day of her first communion at age seven - when Celine Roberts was told 'No one wants you', she believed it.

Illegitimate and unwanted, Celine was forced by her foster mother into prostitution.

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Sue Martin began life at a children's home, behind the doors of which lay a world steeped in lies, cover-ups, victimisation and abuse. At its heart was Boagey, whose perverse bullying was targeted at Sue. Her attacks quickly progressed from the punishment of an innocent child to gratification of her sexual whims.

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Marie Balter's courageous story of hope and healing has inspired millions around the country. After spending the first twenty years of her adult life in a mental hospital, she gradually emerged from the terror of the back wards, eventually to attend graduate school at Harvard University and become a leading champion for the mentally ill.

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As for the fur coat, I shuddered to think ...'

Training in a hospital in the 1930s, Edith Cotterill's long hours on the wards included encouraging leeches to attach to patients (a task much harder than you might think) and the disposal in the furnace of amputated limbs.

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Dancing, singing, swooping - there was something birdlike about his energy, joy and laughter - but also the fleeting, enigmatic quality of his life.

When he was two he lost all his speech, as autism turned his life - and ours - into a baffling challenge. He generated - and continues to generate - huge amounts of laughter.

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Whoever said beggars cant be choosers, my grandfather would remark when she was out of earshot, never met your mother.

Jean Russo was a single mother in the 1950s, badly paid and living with her only son, Richard, in the upstairs apartment of her parents home on Helwig Street in Gloversville, New York.

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From learning to swim, taking dance lessons, to going to Disney World, Gill experiences all of the childhood activities she missed under her strict Indian upbringing. It leads to a discovery of what it means to be happy, and the important lessons that are learned when we are at play.