Graham Wilmer the Founder of the Lantern Project has officially launched his latest book “Picking up the Pieces - a survival guide for victims of childhood sexual abuse.” The book ‘picking up the pieces’ has been written to help people, who have been exposed to childhood sexual abuse. Essentially it is a survival guide, helping them to realise that it wasn’t their fault, they had no control over what happened and that they were an innocent child at the time and are entitled to grieve for their loss.

For those people in the social services, the police and medical professions which together field the various support networks; this book is also very informative. It describes the fears and myths that have been created in the minds of people in our wider community, many of whom are generally reluctant to face up to the fact that relationships between children and adults can; and do on occasions go wrong.

The book includes a contribution by Peter Garsden, the Principal of Abney Garsden McDonald Solicitors and providers of the abuselaw site, which explains in simple English, what is involved in seeking justice, using both the criminal law and the civil law.

The Lantern Project is a support group based in Wallasey, the Wirral, which provides support to victims of childhood sexual abuse, domestic violence, racial abuse and bullying. See http://www.lanternproject.org.uk.