Anya grew up with an uncle and aunt because her biological parents had an affair no one could ever find out about. All of the abuse, coupled with not knowing who her father is for her entire childhood did an immense amount of damage. It is very easy to obtain books these days, and so very hard to put any time and attention to actually reading them.

Everything is different when Peter comes to: He has fur, whiskers, and claws; he has become a cat himself!But when she ended up homeless, living in her car, she knew she had to face her past if she was ever going to find happiness and security again. I do remember seeing an infographic or something that mentioned older people are more likely to sit and read a book, but it seems a lot of book bloggers are really young. Everyone was still under the fist of the Catholic Church at the time, and unmarried mothers, I was always told as a child, were still being put away in sanatoriums, their babies taken from them and put up for adoption as soon as they were born.

Anyway - inspiring story of a gilr abused by her uncle,not having any 'real'family, ending up homless and unloved and still making it! Lavishly produced, cleverly curated and elegantly scripted, it takes us to some of the strangest places on Earth, and offers us a peep through the keyhole. Unlike DNF, where time just passed and I moved on, abandoned means I purposefully put it down with the intention of never, ever picking it back up and finishing it. To step into an abandoned place is to cross a kind of threshold into the past - to time travel from the present day to the instant that people departed. An absolute testament to the human spirit that people can survive this amount of abuse in all its varied forms and still become productive members of society.Jennie and Peter will face many challenges—and not all of them are from the dangerous outside world—in their struggle to find a place that is truly home. My brothers and sisters had been herded off to bed earlier in the evening, but, as he often did, my uncle made me sit there and listen. And for my uncle, or even one of the others imitating him, to look around at me and say, ‘She can do without.

It is forbidden to copy anything for publication elsewhere without written permission from the copyright holder. I didn’t know about DNF until about 3 years ago, but have had an Abandoned folder on my Kindle since 2011 since that’s what it felt like.Monica’s legal victory for abused children set a precedent and has opened the floodgates for others to claim in her wake.