This is the story of the lost childhood of the author whose mother suffered Munchausen by proxy. Her mother allowed her to be subjected to a battery of tests including operations in the pursuit of an illness that only existed in the mothers mind.

Offered on Book relay site in the THings Women are not known for doing relay. I assume that not many mothers make out their daughters are ill when they are not!!

Release planned for Saturday, May 29, 2004 at Postal Release in Chesterfield, England United Kingdom.

Not as good a book as I had hoped but it was thought provoking.To be mailed to tessloiuse as part of book relay

I am looking forward to reading this book, and now I don't have to wait...and wait...on the library copy. Thanks, Sara, for being willing to ship overseas! :) After I read this, I've promised it in trade so I can get a copy of Cold Mountain, which I suspect will take me awhile to slog through :).

I first saw this book in Target right after it was published and it looked like one of those trashy books that I would both love and be ashamed to read. But while my fascination with mentally ill mothers and their abuses of their children is odd, enjoying reading a book that describes abuse of this magnitude would have been too bizarre even for me. No, I did not enjoy reading this book. I still found it fascinating, but not pleasurable, any more than a gruesome accident scene is a pleasurable sight. The childhood Gregory endured and managed, incredibly, to heal from is the worst about which I have read, probably because it is described in the first person. Quite frankly, I am glad to pass this book on in a pre-arranged trade, because it is not a volume I want lingering on my shelf.

Received in the mail today; thanks for sharing! I am looking forward to it... if that's the right choice of words for a book on such a sad subject.

Found it on a desk. Will give it a read and pass it on. Looks like something my mom would read, though.

CAUGHT IN HAZARD KENTUCKY USA