Shannon’s sister had finally left her abusive husband. So why couldn’t she shake a horrid feeling…

My own mum despised me from the moment I was born

I’d made a confession to my mum but I was hiding something much bigger that would tear our family apart.

Dressed in a nautical striped top, dungarees, Converse shoes and a daisy chain in my hair, I swung my arm around my little sis Aimee, then eight, and grinned up at the handheld camera. ‘Cheese,’ Aimee

When her dad’s fun mate became part of her family, Sarah was delighted – at least at first…

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