The Little Prisoner: A Memoir
Selected Book Details
- Paperback
- Author: Jane Elliott
- Publisher: Harper Paperbacks
- Release Date: July 2008
- ISBN-10: 0061561312
- ISBN-13: 9780061561313
- List Price: $13.99
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Summaries and Customer Reviews provided by Amazon
SummaryWhen 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. |
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Amazing!
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This book is amazing. It is graphic but yet so touching. To know that someone can go through so much and survive. This book has touched my heart in so many ways. I love this book, not for what it's about, but for its meaning and purpose!
The Hidden Things
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A shocking account, honestly and graphically written. Amazing that anyone could survive something like this. Very helpful for anyone else who may have gone through this sort of thing. Thankfully, I didn't, but there is far too much of this and it must be told.
An important memoir, but needed assistance with a more skillful writing.
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"Jane's" story of 17 years of mental, physical, and sexual abuse from her young stepfather is a horrific story, but could have been told much more effectively through more skillful writing.
The first three-fourths of the book felt mainly like a flat, aloof, oddly unemotional listing of one atrocity after the other..."he did this to me, he did this to mum, he would make me do this, he would then call me a ...." The last third or fourth of the book seemed to combine events with her feelings and reactions to the events more; I was able to begin to sense that she was a real person and then I could begin to feel more touched by her experiences.
I suppose Jane's nickname "Silly Git" for the stepfather was changed for this book like the other names, but it made me ill every time I read it: "Silly" seemed inappropriate..more an endearment and too "cutesy" for a man as evil as he.
Hopefully this monster is never able to hurt another child or woman; and shame on that bunch that supported him.
A childhood most never survive
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Jane Elliot lived through a childhood that most never survive to tell the tale.
The things this woman went through are unimaginable horrors. From being a sex, and domestic slave for 17 years to being beat down for speaking out against her abuser by her very own brothers.
I'm angry that her mother was never charged with neglect. I know Jane wants to believe that her mom didn't know about the sexual abuse she endured but deep down I think she knows that really her mother could have cared less.
This is a tale of survival. Once you open this book you will not want to set it down.
Great product.
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Amazing book and I am currently in the middle of reading it and am having issue's putting it down once I pick it up. The product came in the condition promised, and delivery was very fast.
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