What Daddy Did: The Shocking True Story of a Little Girl Betrayed - Hardcover

Ford, Donna

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0091924022 ISBN 13: 9780091924027

Publisher: Random House UK, 2008

Synopsis

In this haunting and frank account, Donna Ford unveils the horrific abuse she suffered at the hands of her stepmother. Between the ages of five and 11, Donna was physically, mentally, and sexually abused. She was starved, beaten, and "loaned out" to neighbors who raped and molested her. When her stepmother finally left the family home, Donna dreamed of a normal childhood in which she would be taken care of by her father who had, up until this point, failed her. But it was not to be. In telling the whole story of her childhood, Donna tries to understand why the man who should have loved her was the one who deceived her the most by continuing to allow men to abuse her. Instead of finding a future of love and happiness, Donna was once again thrust into a living nightmare of exploitation and betrayal by those who should have wrapped her up in their love. Donna also tells of her efforts to find her own mother—who abandoned her when she was young— and of the terrors she has gone through as an adult. While this is a story of the appalling physical, mental, and emotional abuse, it is also a tale of how exhilaration, tenderness, and self-development can flourish despite childhood horrors.

About this title

About the Author:

Donna Ford is the author of The Step Child.

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House UK
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0091924022
• ISBN 13: 9780091924027
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 208