'Heart-wrenching. . . I couldn'tput this down.'

--Richard McCann, author of Just a Boy

'Most of the time, I thought I had the best mummy in the whole world. But then she'd change ...'

Tell Me Why, Mummy is a true story - it's my true story. All the people and events described in this book are real, but to protect the privacy of my family and others, all names apart from mine have been changed. However, the descriptions are based on real people and similarly the names of locations have been changed to fictitious locations although the descriptions are based on real places.

Halifax in West Yorkshire, of course, is a real town - it is my home town.