Begging (Invisible Child Book 1)

My name is Mary, and my brother was James Phelge of the rolling stones rock band. He lived with Mick Jagger and Kieth Richards in Edith Grove.The book gives a rare insight into the home life I shared with my brother. The story starts in Edmonton, London. It is the story of heartbreak and neglect in the relentless struggle for food amidst the filth of poverty.

What is it like for a small girl to starve? When she needs help, she is abandoned and left to struggle alone. A powerful true story of this gutsy child fighting for the life of herself and her little 4 year old sister. At 8 Mary is begging for food and feeding the family. Yet something in Mary keeps going with sheer determination to win though using her own initiative, relying only on herself to keep herself under the social radar. This is the first of three books that chronicles this amazing story of courage and inventiveness, of this child.