A child awakens alone in an alien land, not the country of her birth. This is the scene of her original pain, her original trauma. Picking through fragments of memory, she retraces her steps. Addiction, sex, loneliness and hurt. Each poem is a single shard on a journey of self-realisation, from the poet's life on an East London housing estate, to understanding the power of motherhood. As a child she is witness to domestic violence; as an adult, she becomes a victim. Addictions become her e...