About Mondays are Yellow

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‘You’d tell me if Daddy touched your private parts, wouldn’t you, Carolina?’

‘No,’ said Carolina firmly.

‘Why not, honey?’

‘Because it’s a secret.

It is only when long-buried memories from her own childhood start to surface that Ellen realizes the terrible truth about her two young daughters: Carolina and Amy are being sexually abused by their father.Ellen writes with unflinching honesty about the heartbreak of finding out her tiny daughters were abused, her fears of losing custody and her fight to have her story believed by skeptical doctors and social workers. A harrowing true story of sexual abuse from a mother’s point of view, No More Hurt is a deeply affecting chronicle of Ellen’s hard-won battle to create a place of safety and love for herself and her daughters.The landmark book from a mother’s perspective of what it was like to try to win safety after her daughters, aged four and one, were sexually abused by their father.

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