In Hitting Home Pakistani-Dutch Hameeda Lakho once and for all ignores the taboo that child abuse is under. In an open and penetrating way she writes about the painful consequences of a violent, loveless youth, and the influence it has on the rest of your life. In order to survive during her childhood she had to switch off her feelings and try to be invisible, but as an adult she had to learn again how to live and love.

Hitting Home is the moving testimony of a strong woman and her will to survive. With this book Hameeda Lakho wants to draw attention to the victims of child abuse around the world, and make their voices heard. With passion, insight and courage she describes the search for herself, and shows that there is hope in even the most desperate circumstances. Recently she initiated the Secret Violence Foundation, for companions in misfortune who might be able to find recognition and confirmation here.

As a child Hameeda Lakho was mentally and physically abused for years and years. Her father and stepmother told her that her real mother was dead. Together with the journalist Magda van der Rijst she has written two books about her shocking youth, Hidden Bars and Broken Circle. With Hitting home she wrote another gripping and personal book that will leave no reader untouched.