The Requiem of Annie Ducayne

Annie Brewer (the future Annie Ducayne) is tough, and rough around the edges. As a child, she's street smart, and never naive. She needs to be to deal with the harsh realities of her world and her family. Annie's life is full of secrets, and she doesn't even know all of them. Her abusive alcoholic mother, Louise, pretends to be an upstanding citizen, but the revolving door of equally awful men in her life proves otherwise. Her brother Freddie is living his own private hell, so the only person Annie has is her best friend Daisy, whom everyone calls Upsy. But Annie has dreams of a bigger life; she's not content to exist like this - she needs more, she knows she deserves more. She needs to run. So when tragedy and trauma strike more than once, Annie has the impetus she needs to escape to an uncertain future - where fear of the unknown trumps her hellish existence.This book is the prequel to "The Soliloquy of Sunni Ducayne", published in 2019. This is Sunni's mother's story; detailing her journey through childhood, allowing readers to understand how she became the mother she was. It can be read as a stand alone book, but readers of Sunni's story will appreciate the ties, and familiar characters, between both books.