
Genre: Biography
Tag: Ghost Written Books
Publisher: Thistle Publishing
Publication Year: 2013: 2nd Ed 2015
Format: Ebook & Paperback
ASIN: B00W5Q309U
How one teenaged girl survived the mean street's of London's Soho...from homelessness to prostitution to an unexpected redemption.
“It was as if Pandora’s Box had opened. The course of my life changed and in one moment, I went from being a cherished child to an abused child. I was marked.”
Emily enjoyed a golden childhood until, at age seven, her beautiful mother began too see her as a rival and turned on her. She became addicted to beating Emily and encouraged her new husband, a narcissistic bully, to whip her. By the time Emily was 12, he was sexually abusing her.
Emily found her way into the care system, where she was vulnerable to the worst excesses of male violence. She ran away many times and was drawn into life as an underage prostitute servicing perverted clients.
Set principally between 1966 and 1972, Runaway is a shocking book that brilliantly captures the sleazy Soho of the period and exposes the frightening conditions in which many children were kept in care.
Reviews
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This is a very sad and sometimes brutally honest book , But the author does a wonderful job telling her story . I would recommend it to anyone who I knew could handle a true survivors story.
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I could not put this book down, it was a true page turner. Incredible story of life changing events. This story was very well written and I'm looking forward to reading another book by this author.