Street Kid - One Child's Desperate Fight for Survival

Informationen zum Autor After a tormented childhood, much of which she lived as a feral child, Judy Westwater was determined to make her life meaningful. For the past ten years her unstinting efforts to help children in the violent townships of South Africa has been inspirational to many, earning her an Unsung Heroes Award in 2004.Her childhood story, was the subject of one of John Peel’s most moving interviews on BBC Radio 4’s Home Truths. Klappentext John Peel first brought Judy's moving childhood story to light on 'Home Truths'. Abducted by her psychotic spiritualist father and kept like a dog in the backyard, she went on to suffer at the brutal hands of nuns in a Manchester orphanage, before living wild on the streets. An incredible, heart-wrenching story of a child who refused to give up. Zusammenfassung John Peel first brought Judy's moving childhood story to light on 'Home Truths'. Abducted by her psychotic spiritualist father and kept like a dog in the backyard, she went on to suffer at the brutal hands of nuns in a Manchester orphanage, before living wild on the streets. An incredible, heart-wrenching story of a child who refused to give up.

Product details

• Authors: Wanda Carter, Judy Westwater, Westwater Judy
• Publisher: Element Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 16.10.2006
• EAN: 9780007222018
• ISBN: 978-0-00-722201-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Dimensions: 130 mm x 198 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Survival, Autobiography: general, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Violence in Society, True stories of heroism, endurance & survival, True stories of survival of abuse and injustice, Autobiography: philosophy and social sciences, Child abuse