"'I was used to Daddy screaming "whoe's child" at me, over and over again. But I couldn't get used to the shame i felt afterwards.'

Little Anya grew up in terror of the man she knew as 'daddy' - her drunken, bullying uncle who sexually abused her from the age of six. The only person she could trust was the woman she called 'Mummy'.

When Anya's uncle got careless and he began abusing her in front of the other children, Anya cracked. All her terrible secrets came pouring out. Then one day the only woman who loved her - her 'Mummy' - left. After years of trying to overcome her childhood pain, Anya ended up homeless and living in her car on the streets of London.

Abandoned is Anya's harrowing account of her ruined childhood and the inspirational story of how she painfully began to piece her life back together."