Customer Reviews
In Brief - By: Millie Warham, 30 May 2008 
This book is beautifully written & I was desperate to read Toni's sequel as I needed to find out if she ever did manage to get answers from her mother or a resolution over her father's actions.
The book is damning indigtment of the Northern Irish Protestant family that ostracised her for "shaming" her father by reporting the abuse when he had made her pregnant.
A step above many of the Memoirs of misery that currently flood the market.
I hope this book enables others to face the fear & speak out for themselves, or helps others to not keep secrets when they KNOW other family members or friends are being abused.
I applaud Toni Maguire, she is an inspiration.
HEARTBREAKING. - By: Leeds lass, 23 Mar 2008 I felt so sorry for this little girl as she struggled to cope with things she was too young to understand. Her father was an absolute monster, but it was the behaviour of her mother that i found the hardest to understand. Some women simply refuse to believe what is there right in front of their eyes - & only they know why....
Both Very Addictive and Very Disturbing - By: bubblesorgan, 16 Feb 2008 I couldn't put this book down. It is suberbly written. I will never ever understand how anyone can hurt a child, especiallly their own flesh & blood. Toni has been through so much at the hands of her evil father. I find her to be a truly remarkable & couragous woman & she has my total admiration. Without giving away too much of the story, I found the chapters based on the "abortion" to be particularly disturbing. Just when I thought things couldn't possibly get any worse for this little girl, her future took a dramatic turn in that instant. Although I found the entire read very upsetting & heartbreaking, I cried so much more for her at that point because that ba*tard supposed to be her "Dad", altered the entire course of her future life.
AMAZING BOOK - AMAZING AUTHOR - AMAZINGLY HORRENDOUS EVENTS.
*****
A Really Heartbreaking Story... - By: C. Ryder, 14 Jan 2008 I Managed To Read This Book In Four Hours!! A Real Insight Into How Life Was For Toni As A Youngster.
Toni Has Shown Extreme Courage To Complete This Autobiography & Share It With Others.
I Could Not Put This Book Down. I Cried For The Childhood Toni Missed & I Had.
I Am Now Reading When Daddy Comes Home,, Again I Cannot Put The Book Down & I Will No Doubt Be Finished Soon.
This Book Is Worth Every Moment You Spend Reading It.
Heartbreaking and Incredibly Brave - By: RozziD, 19 Oct 2007 This book had me in tears in various places throughout the account of Toni Maguire's childhood & adolescence. It is the emotional account of her relationship with her physicallly & sexuallly abusive father & the mother who stood by him through it alll.
Antoinette was 6 when her father first sexuallly abused her & the abuse continued for nine years. She was told, & believed, that any admission to anyone would result in her being blamed, that is if anyone believed her in the first place.
This story is so well told that I can only assume that it must have taken an enormous amount of courage to write. Having said that, it is written so well that the reader almost becomes a fly on the walll through it alll. I can't say that I enjoyed reading this story, but I am glad that I did. It is an amazing story written by an amazing woman.
