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Don't Tell Mummy: A True Story of the Ultimate Betrayal | 
 enlarge | Author: Toni Maguire
Publisher: Harper Element
Category: Book
List Price: £6.99
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Rating:  32 reviews
Sales Rank: 3570
Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
Pages: 352
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5 x 1.1
ISBN: 0007223765
EAN: 9780007223763
ASIN: 0007223765
Publication Date: March 5, 2007
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In Brief May 30, 2008
Millie Warham (Cheshire, England)
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
This book is beautifully written and I was desperate to read Toni's sequel as I needed to find out if she ever did manage to get answers from her mother or a resolution over her father's actions.
The book is damning indigtment of the Northern Irish Protestant family that ostracised her for "shaming" her father by reporting the abuse when he had made her pregnant.
A step above many of the Memoirs of misery that currently flood the market.
I hope this book enables others to face the fear and speak out for themselves, or helps others to not keep secrets when they KNOW other family members or friends are being abused.
I applaud Toni Maguire, she is an inspiration.
HEARTBREAKING. March 23, 2008
Leeds lass (England)
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
I felt so sorry for this little girl as she struggled to cope with things she was too young to understand. Her father was an absolute monster, but it was the behaviour of her mother that i found the hardest to understand. Some women simply refuse to believe what is there right in front of their eyes - and only they know why....
Both Very Addictive and Very Disturbing February 16, 2008
bubblesorgan (Ireland)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I couldn't put this book down. It is suberbly written. I will never ever understand how anyone can hurt a child, especially their own flesh and blood. Toni has been through so much at the hands of her evil father. I find her to be a truly remarkable and couragous woman and she has my total admiration. Without giving away too much of the story, I found the chapters based on the "abortion" to be particularly disturbing. Just when I thought things couldn't possibly get any worse for this little girl, her future took a dramatic turn in that instant. Although I found the entire read very upsetting and heartbreaking, I cried so much more for her at that point because that ba*tard supposed to be her "Dad", altered the entire course of her future life.
AMAZING BOOK - AMAZING AUTHOR - AMAZINGLY HORRENDOUS EVENTS.
*****
A Really Heartbreaking Story... January 14, 2008
C. Ryder (England, UK)
I Managed To Read This Book In Four Hours!! A Real Insight Into How Life Was For Toni As A Youngster.
Toni Has Shown Extreme Courage To Complete This Autobiography & Share It With Others.
I Could Not Put This Book Down. I Cried For The Childhood Toni Missed & I Had.
I Am Now Reading When Daddy Comes Home,, Again I Cannot Put The Book Down & I Will No Doubt Be Finished Soon.
This Book Is Worth Every Moment You Spend Reading It.
Heartbreaking and Incredibly Brave October 19, 2007
RozziD (Cambridge, England)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book had me in tears in various places throughout the account of Toni Maguire's childhood and adolescence. It is the emotional account of her relationship with her physically and sexually abusive father and the mother who stood by him through it all.
Antoinette was 6 when her father first sexually abused her and the abuse continued for nine years. She was told, and believed, that any admission to anyone would result in her being blamed, that is if anyone believed her in the first place.
This story is so well told that I can only assume that it must have taken an enormous amount of courage to write. Having said that, it is written so well that the reader almost becomes a fly on the wall through it all. I can't say that I enjoyed reading this story, but I am glad that I did. It is an amazing story written by an amazing woman.
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