'Tell her she's no longer my daughter ' Amanda and her dad had never been close -- but now he was forsaking her completely. Separated from her mum at the age of six and forced to live with a cruel stepmother, Amanda learnt at a young age to rely on herself and depend on no one. Although living under the same roof, her father was distant and uninvolved; his was a house but not a home. Eventually, sent back to live with her mum on a tough council estate, she became increasingly estranged from her dad until finally, in her eighteenth year, he disowned her. Driven by questions about the meaning...