This is a true compelling story of a young girl growing up in Nottingham where her happiness and free spirit was snatched from her at the age of 8. Her world was falling apart because of the physical and sexual abuse she endured. Marie showed courage and sheer determination to survive the hopelessness she felt inside with mixed emotions of abhorrence; love and resentment finally healed from her very traumatic and sometimes dejected life. Marie has written The Dollshouse giving a snapshot of her life, this it is not in anyway depressing given the subject matter. The book has been written through the eyes of a child reliving every detail which brings the book to life you will find it hard to put this book down, each chapter tells of an event of this little girls life, the love she had for her brother was imeasurable she witnessed his beatings by the same hand that caressed and tormented her own small body, The book has been written with compassion revealing her most intimate secrets drawing the reader into her secret life. The atrocities she endured under her Fathers dominating aggressive nature almost caused her to end her own life as she had no-one to turn to, not even close family whom she loved as she feared the family would have been seperated. Marie was brainwashed into believing it was her fault, no one would have believed her anyway after all she was just a child and if you tell a child the grass is green they will believe it. Why wouldn't they? After all we rely on the Adults to guide us and tell us the truth. Marie was spared and believes to this day it was the hand of God who pulled her out of her depths of misery.