TY  - BOOK
AU  - Davis, Felicity
TI  - Guard a Silver Sixpence: The Unforgettable Story of One Family's Hidden Past
SN  - 9781447277347
U1  - 362.83 
PY  - 2014///
CY  - United Kingdom
PB  - Pan Macmillan
KW  - Yorkshire
KW  - Domestic violence
KW  - Memoirs
N2  - Felicity's earliest memories are of pain and confusion, of being beaten daily by her nan and watching her mum being beaten too. She ran away from home at fifteen. At thirty-six she was a single mother of three sons who was broke and lost. Remarkably she turned her life around, becoming a teacher. But it wasn't quite enough . . .  Felicity needed to understand why her nan abused her - and in researching her family history uncovered a corrosive secret that had scarred succeeding generations. In 1903 her great-grandmother Emily Swann was hung for the murder of her violent husband. The Wombwell Murder was a notorious case, and it brought shame on Emily's orphaned children. Discovering the povery and hardships of Emily's life in Barnsley, and the traumas her nan suffered as a girl, Felicity came to see the destructive patterns that had been repeated in her family for nearly 100 years, and was finally free to walk away into her own future
ER  -