Rag Dolls And Rage: A Memoir

This is a well-paced story of love in the face of adversity giving readers a fly-on-the-wall view into an idyllic English childhood turned upside down.Rag Dolls and Rage is a coming-of-age memoir set in northern England in the 60s; it ends in Canada in the 21st century.At age 4 Sheila is uprooted from her grandparents cozy home to live far away with a temperamental mother and abusive stepfather. She is rescued after a year but is now a damaged fearful child. This causes her to be bullied at school; however shes relieved to be living back with her grandparents. Then at 15 Sheila returns to her mother after her grandmother dies. Again she is thrown into a turbulent family life eventually leaving home to travel the world and find herself.After settling in Canada Sheila realizes the need to deal with memories of the past and spends a year with a brilliant psychotherapist who helps her to see her life and herself in a different light. Rag Dolls and Rage is equal parts raw happy sad and funny and it ends victoriously: a book that will surely help others scarred by their pasts.