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A coming-of-age story starting in the 1990s, capturing a childhood that begins in warmth, family, and freedom, disrupted by divorce and upheaval. It follows the shift from innocence to instability as home, relationships, and identity are gradually reshaped, and the lasting impact this has on her life well into adulthood.
It is a story of overcoming statistics and defying expectations - moving from a two-parent home in a house they owned, to being raised in a single-parent council home, through a troubled adolescence with no education, periods of homelessness, after being pushed out of the family home.
It explores survival through instability: becoming a victim of crime, struggling with alcohol, never holding down a stable job, and eventually becoming a teenage single mother herself. Motherhood brought its own challenges, but also a turning point. She vowed to be better than what she had known, often being told she loved her children "too much" They became her focus, her purpose, and the source of a strength she didn't know she had - a resilience that felt almost superhuman, driven entirely by them. Finally! She found home it was them, they were her home in a form of a being