What Daddy Did

• About the Author
  
• Title Page
  
• Copyright Page
  
• Dedication
  
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  
• PROLOGUE
  
• Chapter One MY PAST, MY PRESENT, MY FUTURE
  
• Chapter Two MUMMIES AND DADDY
  
• Chapter Three ONE BIG, HAPPY FAMILY
  
• Chapter Four WHAT MIGHT HAVE BEEN
  
• Chapter Five HOME
  
• Chapter Six CHASTISEMENT
  
• Chapter Seven SUCH A GOOD MAN
  
• Chapter Eight AN INVITATION TO A PARTY . . .
  
• Chapter Nine THE DARLING OF ALL
  
• Chapter Ten 'HAPPY NORMAL CHILDREN'
  
• Chapter Eleven NELLIE AND MADGE
  
• Chapter Twelve ERRANDS
  
• Chapter Thirteen SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN
  
• Chapter Fourteen ANDREW AND KAREN
  
• Chapter Fifteen RING, RING, RING
  
• Chapter Sixteen UNANSWERED QUESTIONS, UNWANTED MEMORIES
  
• Chapter Seventeen THE WOMAN OF THE HOUSE
  
• Chapter Eighteen GETTING BY
  
• Chapter Nineteen ONLY AFTER ONE THING . . .
  
• Chapter Twenty MY WORLD
  
• Chapter Twenty-one WORDS OF WISDOM
  
• Chapter Twenty-two LOVE
  
• Chapter Twenty-three CONTRASTS
  
• Chapter Twenty-four MR AND MRS
  
• Chapter Twenty-five OBLIGATIONS
  
• Chapter Twenty-six WHAT DADDIES DO
  
• Chapter Twenty-seven MY BOY, MY GIRLS
  
• Chapter Twenty-eight OUT OF THE FRYING PAN . . .
  
• Chapter Twenty-nine FOR BETTER, FOR WORSE
  
• Chapter Thirty ESCAPE
  
• Chapter Thirty-one A WORLD OUT THERE
  
• Chapter Thirty-two BREDA
  
• Chapter Thirty-three STRENGTH, BLAME AND FORGIVENESS
  
• Chapter Thirty-four A BEGINNING FROM MANY ENDINGS
  
• Chapter Thirty-five BREAKING THE SILENCE
  
• Chapter Thirty-six THE WORLD I HAVE MADE
  
• CONCLUSION: ME
  
• EPILOGUE
  
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In
What Daddy Did
, Donna Ford – author of the bestselling book,
The Step Child
– tells the rest of her story. While it is a tale of the appalling physical, mental and emotional inheritance left to Donna, it is also a tale of how exhilaration, tenderness and self-development can flourish despite childhood horrors.
What Daddy Did
will speak to readers of how we all can find hope from the darkest of histories.

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I'd like to dedicate this book to the memory of Auntie Nellie, Bob, Flora and Dan the man – gone but never ever forgotten.

With love, Donna xx