My own mum despised me from the moment I was born

Eppie had been caught doing the unthinkable. But could she turn shame into a fresh start?

A child’s funeral was full of mourners but one had put her in the coffin

I thought I’d never tell a soul what happened in that graveyard

On the top floor of a London hospital, shrouded in darkness, a famous psychiatrist’s controversial treatment programme filled a ward with sleeping patients, many doped into unconsciousness without their consent – and it was perfectly legal in the 1960s and 1970s.

The first time I said those words, I wasn’t believed. Almost 30 years on, I tried again