Bibliograph

No matter our wreckage, a memoir about grooming, betrayal, trauma and love, Gemma Carey

Type

Label

No matter our wreckage, a memoir about grooming, betrayal, trauma and love, Gemma Carey

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

autobiography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

No matter our wreckage

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Gemma Carey

Sub title

a memoir about grooming, betrayal, trauma and love

Summary

When Gemma Carey was 12 years old, a man twice her age would sneak into her bedroom on a weekly basis and sexually assault her. When Gemma was 17, she took the perpetrator to court without anyone else knowing and had him placed on the child sex offenders register. When she was 33, her mother died of cancer. For 20 years, her mother had known about this man. But why had she not acted to protect her daughter? Could the genesis of this betrayal be found in her own family history? This book presents the story of past and present colliding. It seeks to capture the complexity of forces which lead to abuse; to understand the intertwined narratives of mothers and daughters and how trauma becomes encoded in our DNA through generations. It explores grooming and the intricacies of consent, and how as a society we have not yet figured out how to deal with these types of crimes or the people who commit them

Target audience

adult

Classification