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NARRATED BY THE AUTHOR. By one of the fastest runners of her generation, an affecting, brutally honest memoir of elite sports gone wrong—and a clear-eyed call for how parents, coaches, and young athletes themselves can build a healthier youth sports culture. Few women have ever run 800 meters...

Come to terms with your past while moving powerfully into the future The Courage to Heal is an inspiring, comprehensive guide that offers hope and a map of the healing journey to every woman who was sexually abused as a child—and to those who care about her. Although the effects of child...

Tra i 7 e i 14 anni la piccola Neige viene regolarmente violentata dal suo patrigno. Nel 2000 Neige sporge denuncia e l’uomo viene condannato. Vent’anni dopo, Neige trova la forza di raccontare ciò che le è capitato. Un libro, che usa la scrittura come un martello, attraversato da una domanda: colui che ha creato l’agnello ha creato anche la tigre? Candidato al Premio Strega Europeo 2024.

A dramatic and remarkable narrative of an extraordinary teacher's determination, from the author of the Sunday Times bestsellers The Tiger's Child and One Child. Torey Hayden faced six emotionally troubled kids no other teacher could handle - three recent arrivals from battle-torn Northern Ireland, badly traumatized by the horrors of war; an eleven-year-old boy, who only knew life inside an institution; an excitable girl, aggressive and sexually precocious at the age of eight; and seven-year-old Leslie, perhaps the most hopeless of all, unresponsive and unable to speak.

From No.1 bestselling author Toni Maguire comes a new true story of abuse and survival. 'Whatever you do, don't go back to him, not this time. If not for your sake, then for your children's.' Ava Thomas knew leaving was the right decision. Trapped and manipulated in her relationship, and after...

Groomed and procured by a woman, raped by several men and labelled ‘one of the most abused girl in Rotherham’, now Elizabeth Harper is fighting for answers as to why so many people paid to protect our children simply turned a blind eye. Aged just 15, lonely and bullied by her peers...

Evie and Elliot are scrawny, filthy and scared when they turn up on foster carer Maggie Hartley's doorstep. Aged just two and three years old, this brother and sister have hardly set foot outside their own home. They have been prisoners, locked in a world of abuse, violence and neglect. Maggie soon realises that Evie and Elliot are lacking the basic life skills we all take for granted, and the outside world terrifies them. Gradually unlocking the truth of their heartbreaking upbringing, Maggie tells their shocking true story.

Eine wahre Geschichte über Gewalt und Missbrauch in der eigenen Familie. Manchen Menschen sollte man einfach keine Kinder anvertrauen... Zur Haussklavin degradiert, später Ersatzmutter für meine fünfzehn Jahre jüngere Schwester – mein Leidensweg ist lang und qualvoll. Meine Geschichte muss an die Öffentlichkeit, damit möglichst viele erfahren, was nicht nur mir, sondern gleichzeitig vielen anderen angetan wurde. Lasst uns nicht länger schweigen. Ich bin Jasmin und dies ist meine Geschichte.