Love Child is not your typical memoir. It doesn’t tidy the trauma. It doesn’t offer neat answers. It doesn’t follow the expected arc of pain-then-peace. Instead, it opens a door—and lets the silence finally speak.

In this bold, poetic, and brutally honest memoir, Amanda May Philp tells the story of a girl born into the cold chaos of a snowstorm—and into a life where secrets ruled, questions were dangerous, and silence was the price of survival. Raised under the strict doctrines of high-control religion, Amanda’s childhood was built on fear, isolation, and spiritual manipulation. But the deeper pain was what she couldn’t say out loud: the violence, the abandonment, the grief, the stolen parts of herself.

This is not a redemption story.
It’s a reckoning.

Love Child explores the long, unspoken aftermath of trauma—the years spent pretending, shrinking, surviving. Amanda takes readers on a journey through thirteen schools, three careers, countless heartbreaks, and the quiet moments that shaped her into the woman she is now: defiant, awakened, and finally unafraid to tell the truth.