Pink Camouflage

Pink Camouflage

By Gemma Morgan

Genre:-Memoir

Pages:-192

Publisher:-Luath Press Ltd

Blurb:-This is a fascinating insight into a macho, male-dominated world where reality is so grotesquely distorted from the public perception. Read it, believe it, because sometimes the truth is far more incredible than fiction. TERRY BUTCHER, Captain of England Football Team

Her husband found her by the roadside, delirious and choking on her own vomit. Gemma Morgan was 33, happily married with two young children, an outstanding army service record and a first-class international sporting career. But underneath she was a wreck, surviving on a cocktail of vodka, Valium and sleeping pills. Misogyny, sexual abuse and toxic masculinity had been the daily realities of her Army career long before being deployed unarmed and unsupported to the blood and mayhem of a war zone.

When Gemma gave birth to a baby girl, motherhood left her lost and alienated, a soldier who had deliberately suppressed her femininity with no idea how to cope. Together, these experiences triggered a mental health crisis that led her to become suicidal, battling PTSD, betrayed and abandoned by the institution to which she had devoted seven years of her life.

With the support of her family Gemma has been on a long, hard and bumpy road to recovery. This is her story in her own words. She has told it to inspire a fierce and urgent call for change. Gemma speaks with powerful vulnerability – you could hear a pin drop. JODIE KIDD Model, Racing Driver and TV Personality

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My Review:-When I read the blurb for this book I knew it was a book for me, so close to home. Being a soldier isn't easy but being a female soldier is harder, a need to prove yourself is one of the hardest thing ever. Even though there is many women in the Arm Forces, there are still people out there that think it's not for women, but Gemma wanted to prove them wrong. Gemma wasn't someone to give up, she pushed herself more and more. Because of what she heard and seen, things got really bad for for her, even though she had PTSD, but nobody was willing to admit to it. This book is a story that should be read, not just by Armed Forces. It's hard to believe that even in the Armed Forces there are still men and women being over looked and left with no help. Gemma has put both good and bad into this book.