The Six of Us

5/5 ( ratings)

Maggie Fellows is all grown up. A victim of severe physical and mental abuse up until the age of ten, she has survived despite all the odds.Now she is a teacher, an artist and an independent woman in her own right. The day she meets John, her world is renewed when she ‘after all these years’ finally falls in love.John wants to take care of her, to marry her, to honour her, but when a cruel prank goes wrong, Maggie’s world is torn apart when the others come back into her life with a vengeance. They are Mavis, the negative one, Patty, the gentle one, Tank, the protective one, Stanza the renegade and finally the personality no gets to meet until the very last, Sally, the one who’s only goal is to murder all who threatens her existence.When Maggie has a severe mental breakdown after that cruel prank, John takes her to the North of England to stay with his mother, an eminent Psychiatrist. As Maggie’s childhood is revealed, all the horrors of life in the cellar house are uncovered by the others, while Maggie remains safe, creating her art of unique, powerful, tantalising art.As Maggie heals, John is back in Bristol. He finds a gallery owner willing to show her work.The night of the showing, when Maggie’s birth mother walks in, all hell is let loose in Maggie’s world as the truth envelops her and her world comes tumbling down.The Six of Us, is a heart rendering story about a woman with Multiple Personality Disorder, a sufferer of severe abuse whose only mean of survival is to create others to support her dwindling inner strength and to deal with the demons that continue to haunt her.