Ugly
Nov 2008 · Hachette UK
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'I handed my school photograph to my mother. She stared from the photograph to me. "Lord, sweet Lord, how come she so ugly. Ugly. Ugly.'
These cruel words are just the beginning. Constance's mother systematically abused her daughter, both physically and emotionally, throughout her childhood. Regularly beaten and starved, the child was so desperate she took herself off to Social Services and tried to get taken into care. When Constance was thirteen, her mother simply moved out, leaving her daughter to fend for herself: there was no gas, no electricity and no food.
But somehow Constance found the courage to survive her terrible start in life. This is her heartbreaking - and ultimately triumphant story.
These cruel words are just the beginning. Constance's mother systematically abused her daughter, both physically and emotionally, throughout her childhood. Regularly beaten and starved, the child was so desperate she took herself off to Social Services and tried to get taken into care. When Constance was thirteen, her mother simply moved out, leaving her daughter to fend for herself: there was no gas, no electricity and no food.
But somehow Constance found the courage to survive her terrible start in life. This is her heartbreaking - and ultimately triumphant story.
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Amanda Ludlow
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10 July 2018
Wow one of the hardest books I have ever read sad and upsetting at times
but through all that heartache she fought and won I never understand how
any mother could treat there child in that way good read
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11 June 2012
One of the most emotional books I have ever read. How can a mother treat her daughter like that, it is so heartless and disgraceful. I hope she suffers.
Viv Dunn
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26 September 2014
Ive read it over 10 times cover to cover and I love the story love everything about this book highly recommended for anyone who needs some motivation to get off there butts and not to feel sorry for themselves
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About the author
Constance Briscoe practises as a barrister and in 1996 became a part-time judge - one of the first black women to sit as a judge in the UK. She lives in Clapham.
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