Don't Tell Mummy

Just finished this book and even though I knew better,I kept on hoping her parents would be punished.Very well written, what a terrible story. It made me so angry. All those idiots that blamed the child because she had not told and those idiots in the hospital asking her if she had enjoyed the sex with her parents. I wanted to hit them.
After thinking about Toni and how she acted especially with her mom, even as an adult trying to get her mom to love her and doing everything for her, it made me angry but hey, I can understand it. I know I always try to please my mother even though she also did some not so nice things to me making me a very uncertain person being an adult. It is so hard to change that pattern.

Great book.

This book not only shocked me but hurt me as well. The things that this girl's father did to her are disgusting and shocked me. It shocked me that a father could look at his own child and do the things that he did to her. One of the times in the story made me want to throw up. He didn't even do anything to her; it was what he said to her while she was in the hospital. I wanted to jump through the book and beat the crap out of him.
Her mother is what hurt me the most through this book. This poor child just needed her mother and she just wasn't there for her at all. Every time her mother didn't help her made me think of a young girl telling her grandmother what her grandfather had been doing to her and the grandmother just saying he needs show more therapy and don't call the police on him. It hurt because the mother and the grandmother were both wrong. The child, any child, needs to have a safe family member to go to.
There was no justice for this little girl. No one gave her justice for what her father did to her. Her family was crap to her as well as the people in the town she lived in. That was the most heartbreaking thing about this book. No one took her side that really mattered to her. show less

C'est une autobiographie écrite de façon émouvante. C'est vrai que c'est tragique, c'est vrai que l'on croit que de tels livres sont fabriqués à un certain degré, mais c'est pas le cas dans ce livre. Elle nous offre ses souffrances, sa biographie, et je suis privilégiée de pouvoir connaître tout cela. merci, Toni Maguire. Un livre qui ouvre les yeux: si tu ne veux pas entendre, cela ne fait pas disparaître ce qui s'est passé!

This book I really find hard to rate and review. There's no doubt in my mind that TM has been through hell but in my view the book doesn't do the terror she's experience justice.

To me the book has got way too many descriptions of clothes and external looks which, I've to admit, made me put the book down a couple of times before deciding to finish it eventhough

Searing account of child abuse. Not for the faint of heart.

So many resemblances...

A very tough read.