Get Tough or Die: Why I Forgave My Parents for My Abusive Childhood

By the time Barbara was four years old, she already knew what she would have to do: Get tough or die.

Before DVDs existed, Barbara's childhood trauma was permanently recorded and embedded in her head. Long before surround sound technologies were available, she captured all of the sights and sounds of her childhood in vivid detail.

To write this book all she had to do is press "play," and that scared her because many of those details were not a pretty picture. Some looked more like an old Alf...