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In this astonishing memoir, Susanna Elliot-Newth relives an unimaginable childhood, often stranger than fiction. Trapped in an acutely abusive family home under the watch of a mentally disordered mother and docile father, Susanna's existence is one of sheer survival. From a very tender age, Susanna is exposed to domestic slavery that includes shovelling snow and handwashing the family's laundry with insults for reward. Bent on destroying her daughter's sense of self-worth, Susanna recalls her mother's successful sabotage of cherished relationships and time-cured career plans for her own perverse satisfaction. While Looking Back Without Anger is a powerful story of the human will to survive, it also serves as an important history of a world before current advances in mental health studies; the utter devastation undiagnosed mental disorders can wreak on innocent lives and the criminal potential it unleashes in communities.
ISBN : 978-1-80439-593-6
Published: 29/02/2024
Pages : 268
Size : 205x140
Imprint : Olympia Publishers
Susanna lives in the Northern Suburbs of Wollongong, south of Sydney, Australia where she works as a specialist teacher of students with learning difficulties. She also writes professionally as an author of educational resources in literacy areas for teachers. Her programs sell world-wide. Susanna has a passion for teaching, which combined with her love of writing affords her a busy, but highly rewarding lifestyle. Living so close to the south coast beaches on the east coast of Australia, Susanna's inspiration for her writing comes from the beautiful coastal and mountainous environments on her home doorstep.