Charmaine RichardsonCharmaine Richardson grew up in Ealing, the second of four children before moving to Watford where she attended St Michael's Roman Catholic Senior School then a secretarial course at Casio College. Her first marriage, aged 22, produced two children. n 1986, after a bout of depression she sought counselling for sexual abuse experienced in childhood. She went on to set up a self-help group, subsequently joining Luton Rape Crisis Centre. She obtained a degree in English Literature at Northampton University as a mature student and has since pursued a variety of careers: counselling, home tutoring and funeral celebrant. She met and married Ray Wyre in the late-1990s. Her life with him forms a central part of her 2018 book, Pick Up the Pieces. Now retired she spends her time 'visiting tea-rooms with friends and spoiling her grandchildren'. Read More Read Less