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Someone To Watch Over Me

Someone To Watch Over Me

The True Tale of a Survivor Haunted by the Demons of Abuse

Summary

'It is my dearest hope that this book will allow me to reach out to others in pain and give them hope, for they too can choose to be a survivor.'

Izzy Hammond's deaf and partially blind parents attracted sympathy from the outside world, but no one knew of the horrific abuse their daughter was subjected to inside the family home.

In Someone To Watch Over Me, Izzy is now able to reveal how the vicious childhood abuse she suffered, first at the hands of her father and then by subsequent predators, cast a shadow over three generations of her family and led to a violent assault upon Izzy by her eldest daughter. Finally able to break the cycle, she has at last reclaimed a life free from the demons that have haunted her for so long.

Reviews

  • One of the most powerful examples of triumph against all odds. Izzy Hammond's story is both disturbing and inspiring
    Richard McCann, author of Just a Boy

About the authors

Robert Potter

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Izzy Hammond

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