Literature, film, and television have become obsessed with the intersection of survival and choice. Jane Elliott analyzes this new and distinctive aesthetic phenomenon, which she calls the microeconomic mode, through close readings that show how an aesthetics of choice has reshaped contemporary understanding of what it means to be human.
Sadie Burrows' life is torn apart by the death of her father and the brutal man who replaces him. In the chill of a winter morning in her flat on the rough Sumner Estate, sweet thirteen-year-old Sadie's childhood comes to an abrupt end. Sadie survives her hideous ordeal and becomes a millionaire businesswoman with a high-class sex and lingerie shop and a chain of gentleman's clubs.Then, out of the blue, there is a knock at her door and Sadie's shameful secret comes back to haunt her.Sadie, the first novel by bestselling writer Jane Elliott, is a story of revenge and blackmail and survival.
Persoonlijk relaas van een jonge Engelse vrouw die van haar vierde tot haar 21ste door haar stiefvader werd mishandeld en misbruikt.
Der erschütternde Bericht einer gestohlenen Kindheit duesseldorfer-anzeiger. de „Kein Buch, das sich für die Nachtlektüre eignet und einen ruhigen Schlaf garantiert.“ Süddeutsche Zeitung „Ein wichtiger Beitrag um auf die ganzen misshandelten und missbrauchten Kinder in allen Gesellschaftsschichten aufmerksam zu machen. Insbesondere kann es helfen, die Aufmerksamkeit von Leuten in Schule-, Jugend- und Sozialarbiet zu wecken.“
Ideální encyklopedie pro zvídavé dítě. Obsahuje jednoduchá a jasná vysvětlení značného množství základních pojmů, jevů a věcí každodenního života.
This is the inspirational true story of a four-year old girl who fell into the power of a man whose evil knew no bounds. She encountered terrifying mental and physical torture from her psychopathic stepfather for a period of 17 years until she managed to break free, her spirit still unbroken
Alles über meine Welt - Natur-Menschen-Geschichte - bk209; F.X. Schmid Verlag; Jane Elliot und Colin King; Paperback; 2003
