Book: How Could She
Author: Dana Fowley
Pages:294
Genre: Autobiography

Have you ever thought what it would be like growing up with a mother who thinks of you as an object that serves to be tortured? Dana Fowley was born to Caroline Dunsmore and Tam Fowley 1980, and fifteen months after that her sister Heather followed the track. This whole book talks about Dana's experiences, however they are not the kind of beautiful experiences we get to live our childhood through, instead the horrific memories of pedophiles and physical abusement. When Dana's mother divorced, it took short period until she found a new man and married, they seemed to be the perfect couple, but what going on in their house was unpredictable. At first it was only the man to rape Dana, so she thought when ever mum was there she was safe, she trusted her, but she was wrong. In the following days mum was the one to put her on the man body and hold her down when she was screaming. During her years of experience Dana learned to stay quite and get used to the raping.

People who would rape her:

• man with mother
• grandparents from mans side
• father from her mother

Things that happen in the book:

•  Dana's family moves every year (she thinks it's due to the fact that her parents think other people might notice something weird)
• Not only does Dana get raped but seriously beaten
• She has a few friends but is too shy to tell them what was happening since they had a great life
• It is later on that Dana discovers her sister has been beaten and raped as well
• However Heather has been through more, she git a brain diseases and even thought she is not an adult she still has the brain of a child

I bought this book at an airport, I thought it would be fun to read but some parts of it are really disgusting. I think it is a really good idea writing about what had happened to her so other kids that maybe went through it don't feel alone. I don't understand how some mothers can be so cruel to a child, and then again,How Could She?