The Little Prisoner. Jane Elliott
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Название: The Little Prisoner

Автор: Jane Elliott

Издательство: HarperCollins

Жанр: Биографии и Мемуары

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isbn: 9780007359011

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       Copyright

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      First published by HarperElement 2005

      This edition published 2019

      SECOND EDITION

      © Jane Elliott 2005

      Cover layout design Claire Ward © HarperCollinsPublishers 2019

      Cover photograph © Aurelia Frey/PlainPicture (girl, posed by a model) 2019

      A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library

      Jane Elliott asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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      Source ISBN: 9780007208937

      Ebook Edition © August 2019 ISBN: 9780007359011

      Version 2019-07-29

       Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our table.

      W. H. Auden

      Table of Contents

       Cover Page

       Title Page

       Copyright

       Epigraph

       Chapter Two

       Chapter Three

       Chapter Four

       Chapter Five

       Chapter Six

       Chapter Seven

       Chapter Eight

       Chapter Nine

       Chapter Ten

       Chapter Eleven

       Chapter Twelve

       Epilogue

       About the Publisher

       A Note from the Author

      As a child I never thought anyone would believe what I had to say, so when my book went straight to number one in the hardback bestseller charts and everyone was talking about how brave I was to tell my story, I found it hard to take in. One minute I would be hugging myself with excitement, and the next I would be frightened of what might happen now I’d let the genie out of the bottle.

      Initially I wanted to write the book because I knew how much I’d been helped by reading A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer. If just one child who was being abused read my story, I reasoned, and felt inspired enough to speak out and end the cycle of bullying in their own life, it would be worth doing.

      Every time my publishers rang to say they were printing more copies to meet the demand, I imagined how many more people would be reading it and maybe seeing that it was possible for them to turn on the bullies and regain control of their lives.

      The actual writing process was hard because it stirred up one or two memories and emotions that I’d been trying to forget about. But now I’ve shouted out to the whole world all the things I was told had to be kept secret, it feels as though a lead weight has been lifted off my shoulders.

      However hard I’d been trying to suppress the memories over the years, they were always there. I could distract myself with family chores, a bottle of wine or a packet of cigarettes, but that didn’t make the hurt go away for more than a few hours. Facing up to the memories and telling the whole story was like opening the curtains and windows on a sunny day and letting light and a fresh breeze into a dark room, stale with poisonous air.

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