Hush to Roar: A True Story of Love Childhood Trauma and Recovery

Bas is the only Black child in an all-white village in the UK growing up surrounded by the unconditional love of her fosterfamily. Suddenly her idyllic carefree childhood is shatteredwhen her birth parents decide to take her to Nigeria.Thrown into an alien and confusing world eight-year-old Bas is renamedToyin and has to adapt to survive in her new life in West Africa. For the firsttime Toyin is forced to cope with betrayal family secrets and abuse.After sharing her personal insights into the effects of her childhood traumawith readers and her efforts to comprehend the mindset of her perpetrator Toyin must ultimately learn to forgive in order to continue her inspirationaljourney to recovery.A profoundly moving memoir yet dotted with hilarious moments Hushto Roar is the inspiring story of one womans quest to find her voice andovercome her past to live abundantly in the present.