Charmaine Richardson

Broschiertes Buch

Pick Up the Pieces

My Life With Ray Wyre

Beschreibung

Charmaine Richardson’s highly personal and revealing account describes how she was abused as a child within her comfortable, middle-class London home. It describes the ‘time bomb’ for her and her family, something that led to depression, counselling and a chance meeting with sex-offender expert Ray Wyre, who she married in 1999. A large part of the book is given over to her life with Ray, his work at the Gracewell Clinic and an analysis of his book with Tim Tate, The Murder of Childhood (2nd Edn., Waterside Press, 2018) and the failure of politicians to heed his warnings about how we need to understand and deal with perpetrators. The book also contains the author’s own views on bringing-up children to feel safe, comfortable and resistant to the devious ways in which paedophiles operate, including through the language we use with ‘little people’.

Autor

Charmaine Richardson grew up in Ealing, the second of four children, before moving to Watford where she attended St Michael's Roman Catholic Senior School, then a secretarial course at Casio College. Her first marriage, aged 22, produced two children. In 1986, after a bout of depression she sought counselling for sexual abuse experienced during childhood. She went on to set up a self-help group, subsequently joining Luton Rape Crisis Centre. She obtained a degree in English Literature at Northampton University as a mature student and has since pursued a variety of careers: counselling, home tutoring and funeral celebrant. She met and married the noted sex-offender expert Ray Wyre in the late-1990s and her life with him forms a central part of this book. She also contributed to the 2nd edition of Ray's book with journalist Tim Tate, The Murder of Childhood (2018). Nowadays she runs a group for women abused in childhood at a local medical centre when not 'visiting tea-rooms with friends and spoiling her grandchildren'.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Waterside Press
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 8mm
• Gewicht: 231g
• ISBN-13: 9781909976634
• ISBN-10: 1909976636
• Artikelnr.: 53562966