Beyond Ugly: Triumphing Over a Loveless Childhood

'I would like some cosmetic surgery.'

'For what reason?'

'Because I'm ugly, ugly, ugly.'

It was Constance's mother who told her she was ugly. Over and over again. And that was just one strand of a childhood blighted by physical and emotional abuse. But the young girl had a strength and resilience beyond her years.

She put herself through university, financing her studies with several jobs-including one caring for the terminally ill in a hospice and then fulfilled a lifelong ambition by joining a prestigious set of legal chambers. But Constance's troubles were not over...