Tell Me Why, Mummy is a story of abuse, alcoholism, courage, determination, forgiveness, love and how everyone can choose their own path through life irrespective of their upbringing, background or perceptions about what they think is possible. David Thomas is an incredible example of how this can happen.
From the age of 4 David Thomas was sexually abused by his alcoholic mother and physically abused by his aged stepfather. By the age of 16 he had committed multiple burglaries, assaulted a police officer with an iron bar, attempted suicide, received a criminal conviction from a juvenile court and been expelled from school.
After battling with his own sexual issues and with alcohol abuse, David bought a book on memory at the age of 27. Within 8 months he came 4th in the World Memory Championships and went on to develop one of the most powerful memories in history even breaking an 18 year old Guinness Book of Records memory record by reciting the mathematical formula Pi (3.1459…) to 22,500 digits from memory.
Since then David has become an international speaker, author and media personality travelling all over the world spreading the word about human potential.
In 1999 he was reunited with his mother after 4 years apart and only 12 months later he found her dead at home after she had died of an alcohol induced heart attack.
David is an accomplished and highly experienced interviewee, having appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show, Richard & Judy, GMTV, as well as regularly speaking to audiences of over 2000 people including CEOs, Olympic athletes and government ministers. His book Essential Lifeskills: Improving Your Memory has been published internationally in the UK, US, Australia, Canada, South Africa, Brazil, Portugal, Columbia, New Zealand, Holland, Hong Kong and Mexico, with sales of over 70,000 copies.
In 2007 he was also crowned US Memory Champion at the US championships.
