Wake Up, Mummy

''I squeezed through the narrow gap and out into the hallway and I stood for a moment, unable to decide where to go. Should I make a dash for the kitchen, where my mother would be swigging from a bottle? Or should I run upstairs and try to find somewhere to hide? It was a choice I didn''t really need to make, because there was no escape''

Anna Lowe grows up on the doorsteps of pubs, waiting for her...