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Broken by Shy Keenan (Paperback, 2008)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- ISBN
- 9780340937433
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Paperback
- Language
- English
- Subject Area
- Sexual Abuse
- Publication Name
- Broken
- Item Height
- 236 mm
- Publisher
- Hodder & Stoughton
- Item Weight
- 470 g
- Item Width
- 173 mm
- Number of Pages
- 320 Pages
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'I was born and broken in Birkenhead. I was unwanted, beaten, sold, swapped, photographed, filmed, left for dead, corrupted, blamed, betrayed and ignored. But I was also born with a fire inside me. I call it my Phoenix Fire. I am no victim - that word only describes what happened to me. Nor am I a survivor because that implies I am over it. I am a Phoenix - a work in progress. This is my story.' Shy wasn't meant to survive her childhood. Her mother beat her so severely that Shy was deaf by her first day in school. Her stepsister thought nothing of pouring boiling water over her in punishment fot the crime of wetting the bed. And virtually every day, from the age of four, Shy was raped by her stepfather, Stan. When she was ten she was attacked so viciously by the gang of dockworkers Stan had sold her to that she was left for dead in a field, her skull fractured. Shocking as it sounds, this was virtually normal life for Shy. Today, Shy is the internationally respected chief advocate for Phoenix Survivors, the campaining group she founded to fight for justice for vicitms of child sexual abuse. Alongside Sara Payne, she has worked tirelessly with politicians, social services, the legal system and the media for such measures as the UK's adoption of Sarah's Law. Six years ago, her testimony secured the imprisonment of Stan and his associates for a catalogue of crimes against children. But it was only after a journey fraught with horror - stealing to survive on the streets of London, psyciatric care, prison and near-suicide that Shy emerged as the person she is today. Her experiences challenge the limits of our understanding of the wickedness people are capable of but they also tell us something unique about goodness.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton
ISBN-13
9780340937433
eBay Product ID (ePID)
88916571
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
320 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Broken
Publication Year
2008
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Sexual Abuse
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
236 mm
Item Weight
470 g
Item Width
173 mm
Additional Product Features
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
LeafCats
2228
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
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