Book description
'I squeezed through the narrow gap and out into the hallway and I
stood for a moment, unable to decide where to go. Should I make a
dash for the kitchen, where my mother would be swigging from a
bottle? Or should I run upstairs and try to find somewhere to hide?
It was a choice I didn't really need to make, because there was no escape'
Anna Lowe grows up on the doorsteps of pubs, waiting for her mum to
come out. Having to give up her bedroom to her mother's drunken
friends. And regularly calling out the ambulance, after finding her
mother unconscious and covered in vomit.
But it is when they move in with her mother's boyfriend Carl that
things take the ugliest turn. Not only is he violent with her mother,
but he also sexually abuses Anna from the age of six - destroying any
semblance of normal childhood she had left.
Wake Up, Mummy is the heartbreaking true story of a little
girl who eventually found the courage to break free from the past.
Anna Lowe is mother to three children, and today runs a successful
business with her brother.
