The Little Prisoner - A Memoir

Informationen zum Autor Jane Elliott is a pseudonym. The author first decided to tell her story to the police after taking inspiration from Dave Pelzer's powerful memoir A Child Called It and becoming convinced that she could no longer remain a silent victim of the stepfather who had kept her a virtual prisoner for so many years. Klappentext When Jane Elliott was four years old, the nightmare began. She became the helpless victim of a sociopath--bullied, dominated, and sexually abused by a man only fourteen years her senior: her stepfather. For nearly two decades she was held prisoner, both physically and emotionally. But at the age of twenty-one she escaped . . . and then she fought back.The Little Prisoner is the shocking, astonishing, and ultimately uplifting true story of one woman's shattering twenty-year ordeal--and how she triumphed against an evil and violent human monster when honesty and bravery were her only weapons. Zusammenfassung When Jane Elliott was four years old! the nightmare began. She became the helpless victim of a sociopath—bullied! dominated! and sexually abused by a man only fourteen years her senior: her stepfather. For nearly two decades she was held prisoner! both physically and emotionally. But at the age of twenty-one she escaped . . . and then she fought back. The Little Prisoner is the shocking! astonishing! and ultimately uplifting true story of one woman's shattering twenty-year ordeal—and how she triumphed against an evil and violent human monster when honesty and bravery were her only weapons.

Product details

• Authors: Jane Elliott, Jane/ Crofts Elliott
• Publisher: Harper Collins Usa
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.08.2008
• EAN: 9780061561313
• ISBN: 978-0-06-156131-3
• No. of pages: 267
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 203 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Personal Memoirs, SELF-HELP: Personal Growth / General, SELF-HELP: Self-Management / General, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Women, SELF-HELP: Personal Growth / Memory Improvement, SELF-HELP: Motivational & Inspirational, PSYCHOLOGY: Developmental / Child, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY: Survival, SELF-HELP: Abuse