Sign In Up with your social account. While Sunday was originally published in , Tina has more recently issued an audiobook version, read by her, which is available now through Audible.
I visited several prisons for research before filming began, and the claustrophobic atmosphere affected me strongly. The frustration of the women occupants, with little to look forward to but tasteless food and stale air, prompted me to reflect back on a time in my life when it felt as though I were in a prison myself. I hope that my book will help readers to understand my feelings about this experience, which are even stronger now than when I first wrote Sunday.
I wanted to call attention to the fact that young children are entitled to a warm and nurturing upbringing, and real maturity is needed in order to provide this.
If Sunday could in some way help stop one girl or boy from bringing a child into the world before he or she is really ready to nurture, guide, love, and hold a child close, I feel I would be doing a service. For the record, Sunday was the one day a week parents came to visit their children at Ardsley, though, as she discovered, that was no guarantee that they would.
TL: It just kind of crept up on me; it was the right time. The book ends with my dad taking me out of there. I have no memory of living with my mother at that point.
