Linda Fewtrell

When the Bough Breaks Linda Fewtrell

She was born in poverty, Her mother now a shell of her former self is lost in her own head and her brutish father drinks away any money he earns. A young girl struggling to care for her younger siblings and keeping their father's attentions away from her young sisters, she endures the rape and beatings from him. She bares tragedy with resilience and slowly drags her dwindling family to a better life, The past catches up on the children and a figure from their days in the slums re appears, will they overcome the odds set against them?