My Mother, the Psychopath
Growing up in the shadow of a monster
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Publisher Description
What do you do when the person you’re meant to trust the most in the world is the one trying to destroy you?
‘When people met her they thought how lovely she was, this attractive woman with a beautiful laugh. But she was one person in public and another behind closed doors. Who would she be today? The loving mother? The trusted teacher? The monster destroying my life?’
Olivia has been afraid ever since she can remember. Out of sight, she was subjected to cruelty and humiliation at the hands of the one person who should have loved and protected her at all times – her mother, Josephine.
While appearing completely normal to the outside world, Josephine displayed all the signs of being a psychopath – unbeknown to her daughter until adulthood – and Olivia grew up feeling scared, worthless and exploited. Even when she found the courage to cut ties, her mother found new ways to manipulate and deceive, attempting to destroy her life with a vicious campaign of abuse.
Now Olivia has come to terms with her past and gives a fascinating, harrowing and deeply unsettling insight into what it’s like growing up with a psychopathic parent.
Customer Reviews
Brilliant!!
Amazing, so good well written and gripping I could not put this book down I would definitely recommend
Jaw dropping
How brave to tell this story! It was gripping from the off. As a mother and grandmother myself I could never imagine treating my girls so horrifically. Wouldn’t it be fascinating if Josephine wrote her memoirs.
Close To Home
I had an interest in this book because of my childhood. Not only did it have me lost in my own reality of a similar situation it has also made me set back, think and look at re setting my
Priorities and life, I am 42 years old I just hope that other people read this at a younger age and it can help change their life like I know it is going to change mine.
So far to go but without this book it would never have felt possible. Heart wrenching, emotional overwhelming but most of all it provides the old cliche realisation “you really are not alone”