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Truth about the million-pound 'misery lit' phenomenon. From A Child Called 'It' to Angela's Ashes, Ugly, Surviving With Wolves and Kathy's Story of The Magdalen Laundries, what's true, what's made up... and what happened to 'survivors' next ⊖

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Dave Pelzer's book, A Child Called 'It' - about his utterly miserable, abuse-ridden Californian childhood - became a global hit in 1995.