Escape From Evil - Cathy Wilson [142]
[4] With my mother in the back garden of my grandparents’ house in Saltdean, May 1972.
[5] Trying to go fast on my tricycle, aged two in October 1972.
[6] Snapped on the beach, aged four, by the local paper. This was just before my childhood became a lot darker.
[7] My mother, with my first bicycle in the background. The mismatching tyres upset me as a child, perhaps because I knew it was second-hand.
[9] My first motorbike, which I bought in 1986 when I was sixteen. By the autumn of that year I’d moved in with Peter Tobin.
[10] My grandmother holding baby Daniel, who was born on 21 December 1987, while Peter looks on.
[11] My friend Sally lent me her husband and his Daimler as my wedding car – I felt like a princess.
[12] Just married, and happy that in marrying Peter Tobin I was doing the right thing to do for our son.
[13] Gorgeous Daniel, with his father.
[14] Outside my Tea Shoppe with Daniel, in October 1988. Peter wouldn’t help look after him so I took him to work with me.
[15] Christmas with Granny, Daniel and Peter.
[16] Daniel sitting on my bike, outside the house in Bathgate, Scotland.
[17] Tobin with our cat Benji, taken when I was pregnant with Daniel.
[18] A smile from Daniel, my innocent angel.
[19] Camping on Exmoor with Daniel, then aged seventeen and preparing to climb Mt Kilimanjaro. I’m so proud of my beautiful son.
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Table of Contents
PROLOGUE This is Where it Ends
1 The Choices Mum Made
2 Toast with Margarine
3 The Eye of the Storm
4 Mother Knows Best
5 When Can I Go Home?
6 Don’t Touch Me
7 Did You Miss Me?
8 This is Normal
9 Trying to be Brave
10 I Was a Handful
11 A Charming Man
12 The Signs were There
13 I’ll Try Harder
14 Think of Daniel
15 And Then I’ll Kill the Kid
16 His Home is Here with Me
17 Another Thirty Seconds . . .
18 Help Me, Mum
19 All About Him
20 Turn Round! Turn Round!
21 The Terrible Truth
EPILOGUE This is Where it Begins