TRUST ME

*** A UK SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BEST-SELLER ***

Dulcie Taylor had heard so many people urge her to ‘trust me’. Her mother, father, grandmother, teacher, policemen, social workers, nuns, priests, and they had all betrayed her and her younger sister, May, in one way or another. By the time she is fifteen, she has learned that the only person she can really trust is herself.

Trust Me is the story of three emotionally scarred people, each struggling in their own way to overcome their handicaps. Dulcie’s way is self sacrifice, May’s is cunning, and Ross’ denial. It takes a child, Noel, to bring about their healing. As the three adults are forced into uneasy alliance to prevent Noel being damaged like them, they have to face up to their own personal demons, and find the love each of them needed.

Set in the 1940’s and 1950’s, Trust Me is based on the true life scandal of Child Migrants who were sent out from British orphanages to Australia during the post-war period. No one checked to see they were being properly cared for. They were lied to, ill-treated, many sexually abused, and robbed of any real identity. Often their parents back home believed they had been adopted or fostered. And many were told that their children were dead.