Author: sharonbrownlie

Helen King’s childhood is marred by physical abuse and rejection. At the age of fourteen she finds herself in the clutches of a pimp in Gloucester. He lures her into a life of drugs and prostitution. At the age of twenty she uses her drug addiction as a way to blank out the memories. It enables her to hide the psychological scarring caused by those that she feels had abandoned her. Her life is … life is spiralling out of control. Helen’s decision to quit her addiction comes at a time when she has a chance encounter with an old…