With the truth about Dad finally emerging, I desperately wanted to tell Mum what he’d done to me.
But I was scared it would break her.
When word about his horrific crimes got round, friends and neighbours even turned against us – it was an awful time.
But we gradually settled into a new life, just the two of us.
Each year we’d have a little party on the anniversary of their divorce.
‘I don’t know why I