Ann Cusack

“It was like going through a door which had been locked all my life. I had walked past it every single day, afraid to even rattle the handle. Now I was smashing the locks, I was wrenching it from the hinges, and I was marching through. Here I am!" A woman whose mother twice tried to kill her...

Kathleen Richards was pas zeventien toen zij en haar zus Deirdre bij een ogenschijnlijk vriendelijk echtpaar in Gloucester aanklopten: Fred en Rose West. Na een jeugd vol armoede en misbruik in Dublin hoopte Kathleen in Engeland een nieuw begin te vinden.

"What mattered was that someone listened to me. Someone believed me, after 25 years. That means everything." A mum of three who was abused and raped as a child by her own father has revealed her ordeal drove her into the clutches of middle-aged paedophiles. Trish Hinde, 35, was sexually abused...

After a life in care, with both good and bad experiences of the system, Hope knows all too well what the risks are for children in care as they approach adolescence. Lacking any sense of self-worth or belonging, children in care are often dismissed by the authorities as impossible to manage and...

Co-written by the writer of Sunday Times bestsellers The Asylum, The Convent, Silent Sisters and Abandoned Harrowing emotional story of horrific sexual abuse at the hands of a father Sarah Sidebottom was repeatedly raped by both her father and her brother as a child has secured justice thanks to...

Co-written by Ann Cusack, the Sunday Times best-selling author of The Asylum, The Convent, Silent Sisters, and Abandoned A woman who was sexually abused by her own father and later gave birth to his daughter is now running a support group which spans 30 countries and has tens of thousands of...

Kathleen Richards was just 17 when she and her sister Deirdre found themselves on the doorstep of 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester, seeking lodgings from a seemingly friendly local couple: Fred and Rose West. While growing up in poverty-stricken Dublin in the 1960s, Kathleen was abused from a...