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 In 1986, after a bout of depression she sought counselling for sexual abuse experienced during 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 the noted sex-offender expert Ray Wyre in the late-1990s and her life with him forms a central part of this book. She also contributed to the 2nd edition of Ray's book with journalist Tim Tate, The Murder of Childhood (2018). Nowadays she runs a group for women abused in childhood at a local medical centre when not 'visiting tea-rooms with friends and spoiling her grandchildren'. Read More Read Less