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No Going Home
From No.1 bestselling author Toni Maguire comes a new true story of abuse and survival.'Small children have no say in the direction their lives take. Even before they have learnt to walk and talk, they are trained to obey'Daisy was only four when her parents told her and her older brother that they were moving halfway across the world to Australia for a better life. Leaving everything behind, including her beloved grandparents, she stepped into an unfamiliar world. Daisy's close and unbreakable bond with her disabled brother helped her navigate her new life, until tragedy repeatedly struck the family.After her parents' split and she was introduced to her new stepfather, nothing could have prepared her for what followed. All alone in 300 acres of wilderness, Daisy's only wish was to return home to her grandparents and their love. This is her true story of fear, abuse and, finally, escape.
368 pages, Paperback
Published January 6, 2022
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About the author
Toni Maguire
43 books547 followers“Don’t tell Mummy”, my memoir of my own childhood abuse, became a UK best seller in 2007. Writing about my experiences was hard emotionally, but in retrospect it has helped me deal with my past and realize that there is no shame in being the victim. It is never the child’s fault, whatever the abuser makes them believe at the time. How can it be? I then wrote a sequel, “When Daddy Comes Home”, which deals with the mental trauma of having a father jailed for incest, return to a home where my mother welcomed him back as if nothing had happened and turned her back on me.
My success with my two autobiographies encouraged others who had kept their childhood secrets hidden to approach me and five books depicting their stories followed: Helpless, Nobody Came, Don’t You Love Your Daddy? Can’t Anyone Help Me? All very different, but with one thing in common; the victims all thought they were somehow to blame.
I hope that my books have helped expose and lift the social taboos of acknowledging physical and emotional abuse together mental illness. Whereas children are victims, adults need to be survivors. I not only used my own name in my books, but placed my photograph there as well, making my point that no shame should be attached to having been a victim.
To date I have published over 1.5 million books worldwide. In October last year France published Madeline’s story, “They Stole my Innocence,” which will be available in the UK in August. Before I wrote it, I had started writing my first novel; a mixture of fact and fiction which happily I have now finished, titled “Pretty Maids all in a Row” Set against the capricious, unequal and often cruel landscape of London’s Victorian era, it is the story of Agnes a fisherman’s daughter and Emily a heiress. One travels to London in search for her sister, the other is kidnapped, simply because she is was so beautiful. Both girls are taken to Mary Jefferies, the notorious brothel keeper whose clients were some of the most powerful men in England. Her sponsor was King Leopold, the cousin of Queen Victoria. Against this background the passionate men and women known as the Reformers were striving to get the age of consent. This is a major departure in the style of my writing and I think my previous fan-base and totally new readers of my work will find it enthralling.
My success with my two autobiographies encouraged others who had kept their childhood secrets hidden to approach me and five books depicting their stories followed: Helpless, Nobody Came, Don’t You Love Your Daddy? Can’t Anyone Help Me? All very different, but with one thing in common; the victims all thought they were somehow to blame.
I hope that my books have helped expose and lift the social taboos of acknowledging physical and emotional abuse together mental illness. Whereas children are victims, adults need to be survivors. I not only used my own name in my books, but placed my photograph there as well, making my point that no shame should be attached to having been a victim.
To date I have published over 1.5 million books worldwide. In October last year France published Madeline’s story, “They Stole my Innocence,” which will be available in the UK in August. Before I wrote it, I had started writing my first novel; a mixture of fact and fiction which happily I have now finished, titled “Pretty Maids all in a Row” Set against the capricious, unequal and often cruel landscape of London’s Victorian era, it is the story of Agnes a fisherman’s daughter and Emily a heiress. One travels to London in search for her sister, the other is kidnapped, simply because she is was so beautiful. Both girls are taken to Mary Jefferies, the notorious brothel keeper whose clients were some of the most powerful men in England. Her sponsor was King Leopold, the cousin of Queen Victoria. Against this background the passionate men and women known as the Reformers were striving to get the age of consent. This is a major departure in the style of my writing and I think my previous fan-base and totally new readers of my work will find it enthralling.
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January 13, 2022
frustrating and so long winded
Not sure if this is fiction if it’s not I apologise for being inconsiderate
Far too long with details not needed (it may be character building etc but I ended up skipping huge sections)
Synopsis - flighty “mother” self centred and selfish moves her kids all over the globe meets someone who abuses her daughter she does nothing and perpetrator gets zero punishment
Not sure if this is fiction if it’s not I apologise for being inconsiderate
Far too long with details not needed (it may be character building etc but I ended up skipping huge sections)
Synopsis - flighty “mother” self centred and selfish moves her kids all over the globe meets someone who abuses her daughter she does nothing and perpetrator gets zero punishment
January 19, 2022
Beautifully
Written. This is a book that I needed a box of tissues to read. There was parts that touched a bit close. Parts I wanted to jump in and twist your arm and force you to speak up. Sorry. Spoilers………When your brother passed I cried like a baby. I am so very sad that you lost him he seems like a wonderful brother.
Written. This is a book that I needed a box of tissues to read. There was parts that touched a bit close. Parts I wanted to jump in and twist your arm and force you to speak up. Sorry. Spoilers………When your brother passed I cried like a baby. I am so very sad that you lost him he seems like a wonderful brother.
January 19, 2022
No Going Home: My True Story Of Childhood Secrets and Escapes. by Toni Maguire.
Love all of Toni Maguire books … but found this one to be right out of left field. Nothing like her normal books she writes and found it a bit confusing. Had some good parts but not what I normally find a hard to put down book. Hoping this is not the style she continues with.
Love all of Toni Maguire books … but found this one to be right out of left field. Nothing like her normal books she writes and found it a bit confusing. Had some good parts but not what I normally find a hard to put down book. Hoping this is not the style she continues with.
January 16, 2022
Another really good book from Toni Maguire.
January 9, 2023
Nicely tied up, hopefully they had thier happy ever after
August 9, 2023
From my heart
Brilliant, cried, empathise and wish them all the luck they deserve. A true survivor and you will be believed Tommy
Brilliant, cried, empathise and wish them all the luck they deserve. A true survivor and you will be believed Tommy
February 8, 2024
Trigger warning: next to the heavy theme of the book there are also quite graphical descriptions of animal deaths.
March 25, 2025
Fantastic read
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