Parallel Lives - Brossura

Harrison, Rita

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1907136061 ISBN 13: 9781907136061

Casa editrice: Four O'Clock Press, 2009

Riassunto

On average, one child a week is abused to death in Britain. Police records reveal new cases of abuse running at 20,000 a year. Victims range from babies and toddlers to teenagers. Not recorded in the files is the trauma that remains with victims for the rest of their lives. Guilt, fears, low self-esteem and phobias, all challenge the daily struggle to redefine personalities as they might have flourished had the humiliations not be inflicted on them during their formative years. Rita Harrison explores the emotional wreckage that perpetrators leave in their wake. In Parallel Lives she shows how poetry can be the cathartic medium for relieving personal pain, and to illuminate the social contexts of this taboo crime. From the bewilderment in a courtroom and the daily isolation in the classroom, to the harrowing stabs of anguish triggered by the creak of floorboards, the thoughts and feelings of victims are honestly portrayed. All proceeds from this book are dedicated to NAPAC, the National Association for People Abused in Childhood.

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L'autore

Rita Harrison was born in Birmingham. Following an itinerant childhood, she attended Welshpool Grammar School. In 1956 she studied drama at Cardiff College of Music and Drama. Rita worked for BEA at Heathrow, in Fleet Street as a secretary and has chaperoned children in entertainement. She is married, with one daughter and lives in London.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Four O'Clock Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1907136061
• ISBN 13: 9781907136061
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 62
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile