Synopsis:
This book tells the life of Suzy Williams, who grew from British army childhood to today being a recently retired New Zealander, who shares seven marriages between her
and her spouse of twenty-seven years.
Suzy suffered from serious childhood sexual abuse, followed by a series of three marriages and various relationships where she was abused, used, faced crisis’s, was life threatened and cast aside over a period of forty years.
These ‘forty years of adventure’ are full of the strangest and worst events and situations that would, at the very least, scare-to-death, or at worst seem un-surmountable to
a normal person. Sometimes they are outrageously funny or weird, but nevertheless are true.
You would think that anyone exposed to these events, that-cut-to the-bone, would preclude this anyone ever being able to overcome and live a half-decent life, without being a mental wreck.
And yet Suzy does overcome, with divine assistance, when all other avenues and options had failed her. She shows others living her old life and circumstances that they too should not succumb but be overcomers like Suzy. Answers to YOUR real-life questions are here.
This book should have appeal to anyone, male or female, rich or poor, secular or any religion; that whatever their circumstances are ‘now’ they too can fight their way out of oppression and find their way to happiness.
Counsellor’s, those needing counselling, those who find unanswerable questions in their life and those looking for inspiration or to give inspiration need to take a leaf or two from Suzy’s book. Here is a book that entertains and educates at the same time. A good and valuable ‘read’ for everyone.
Publication Date: August 2018
Price: $35.00
Size: 150mm x 230mm
Extent: 176 Pages
Binding: Limp Bound
ISBN: 978-0-9941323-2-1
This book tells the life of Suzy Williams, who grew from British army childhood to today being a recently retired New Zealander, who shares seven marriages between her
and her spouse of twenty-seven years.
Suzy suffered from serious childhood sexual abuse, followed by a series of three marriages and various relationships where she was abused, used, faced crisis’s, was life threatened and cast aside over a period of forty years.
These ‘forty years of adventure’ are full of the strangest and worst events and situations that would, at the very least, scare-to-death, or at worst seem un-surmountable to
a normal person. Sometimes they are outrageously funny or weird, but nevertheless are true.
You would think that anyone exposed to these events, that-cut-to the-bone, would preclude this anyone ever being able to overcome and live a half-decent life, without being a mental wreck.
And yet Suzy does overcome, with divine assistance, when all other avenues and options had failed her. She shows others living her old life and circumstances that they too should not succumb but be overcomers like Suzy. Answers to YOUR real-life questions are here.
This book should have appeal to anyone, male or female, rich or poor, secular or any religion; that whatever their circumstances are ‘now’ they too can fight their way out of oppression and find their way to happiness.
Counsellor’s, those needing counselling, those who find unanswerable questions in their life and those looking for inspiration or to give inspiration need to take a leaf or two from Suzy’s book. Here is a book that entertains and educates at the same time. A good and valuable ‘read’ for everyone.
Publication Date: August 2018
Price: $35.00
Size: 150mm x 230mm
Extent: 176 Pages
Binding: Limp Bound
ISBN: 978-0-9941323-2-1
Article by David Huxton.
Kapiti News
Finding her way out of a life of abuse
Courage to write about her difficult life to help others
Writing a book about turbulent times in her early life was painfully difficult for Anne Trevethick, but she knew it was important. She persevered for others who might find strength and hope in overcoming daunting odds.
Anne, from Raumati Beach , has written about her experiences in The Rusty Tin Can, under the pseudonym Suzy Williams.
The book describes a 40-year period dealing with a sexually abusive father from a young age, then a series of dysfunctional and destructive adult relationships and on going control by her father , to eventually surviving in a way that should give hope to all fellow sufferers. It has taken Anne as much courage and bravery to write and publish this book over the past 25 years as it took to eventually tell her mother about the abuse when younger. “Many times the opening of the boxes of long locked-away painful memories and blocked out events were almost too difficult to bear. “But good people around me, such as counsellors, family and friends, kept the whole Rusty Tin Can project going because we all wanted to provide a source of help for those searching for a way out. I wrote the book because I wanted other people to see that there was a way out.
“There are people out there who are going through the same sort of things and probably not knowing what to do. “If it’s not through the Lord, and it might very well be, then there are counsellors out there who can help. “All you have to do is to acknowledge it, and to face up to the fact that you need help, and seek it. “There are lots of people that can help you. It takes courage to own up to it and it took a lot of courage for me to write the book. “There’s a lot of people this book could help,” Anne said. She has been happily married to Don Trevethick for a number of years. The foreword is written by clinical psychologist John Watson who describes the book as a “absolute credit” to the writer. “She has demonstrated that by laying her heart and soul on the line it could very well assist many women and men survivors of sexual, emotional and physical abuse.” “It is a brilliant expose of how she has become an empowered survivor of abuse instead of remaining a disempowered victim for her entire life.”