![]() From early childhood, Julie Gregory was continually x-rayed, medicated and operated on - in the vain pursuit of an illness that was all in her mother's mind. She checks her teeth for lipstick and, as the doctor enters, shoots the girl a warning glance. She's about to suggest open heart surgery on her child to 'get to the bottom of this'. Her mother, on the other hand, seems curiously excited. It's 4 pm and she hasn't eaten anything all day. ![]() Just 12 years old, she's tall, skinny and weak. A young girl is perched on yet another doctor's examining table, missing yet another day of school. Sydney, New South Wales : Penguin Random House Australia, 2011Ī powerful and heartbreakingly moving memoir of a survivor of the world's most lethal and best hidden forms of child abuse. National edeposit: Available onsite at national, state and territory libraries
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