Surviving: Life with a Maternal Bully

Any child will know when she's loved unconditionally. And every child should be entitled to a nurturing environment and love-but this is not what always happens.In 1943, Anna Townsend, at the age of six weeks, is adopted by a couple who is unable to have children of their own. With her pretty red curls, the little infant has no way of knowing she's been adopted for the wrong reasons: Vera wants the status that "being a mother" will bring her among family, neighbors, and friends. Her husband...