These cruel words are just the beginning. Constance's mother systematically abused her daughter, both physica and emotionally, throughout her childhood. Regularly beaten and starved, the child was so desperate she took herself off to Social Services and tried to get taken into care. When Constance was thirteen, her mother simply moved out, leaving her daughter to fend for herself: the was no gas. no electricity and no food.

 Prologue

1 My Family

2 An Addition to the Family

3 A New Father

4 Christmas Cheer- 1965

5 Ugly - 1966

6 New Shoes - 1967-8

7 Witchcraft- 1968

8 A Good Catholic Girl- 1968

9 I Take the Law into My Own Hands - 1969

10 Jacksonmania - 1969

11 Cinderella Goes to the Ball - 1969

12 The Vanishing Bed - 1969

13 A Saturday Job - 1969

14 Hospital- 1969

15 A School Trip - 1970

16 Good Moming Heartache - 1971

17 A Taste of Paradise - 1971

18 Paradise Lost - 1971

19 Another Christmas - 1971

20 Bye Bye Bem - 1972

21 Home Alone - 1972

22 Playground Bullies - 1972

23 Money of My Own - 1972

24 Hard Times - 1972

25 A Ray of Hope - 1972-5

Epilogue