In this powerful & honest memoir Laurie Matthew takes the reader with her as she revisits her childhood in 1950s & 1960s Dundee. Raised in a home which consisted of an emotionally neglectful & physically violent mother a distant father a chronically sick brother & a sister she needed to protect the only ray of light in little Lauries life came from the man who would return home from the Army with pockets full of sweets & bags of toys. Uncle Andrew would shower her with attention & love capture the hearts of everyone around him
- & carefully groom her for years of abuse by not only himself but also by a network of paedophiles. Laurie tells a harrowing story of isolation as her abusers went to extraordinary lengths to carry out their sick acts wearing masks to confuse & torment her & keeping her away from other children. But these evil men had no idea that the girl they systematically violated would turn into one of the countrys leading child protection experts & that their legacy would give her the impetus to change the lives of so many innocent victims.