Naked

‘I’m not taking my clothes off.’

My words bounced off the walls of the empty changing room.

I was ten years old. I folded my arms tightly across my chest. I’d seen them outside. Naked

Mum tried a smile. ‘Nobody minds here.’

But I minded. I’d never seen strangers naked before.

With a volatile father and an alcoholic mother, ten-year-old Jo was a desperately unhappy child.

Miserable at home and friendless at school, she didn’…