Behind Closed Doors
Jenny Tomlin
Feb 2012 · Hachette UK
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Jenny grew up in a house where no-one was safe. Born one of five children in the East End, her childhood was spent in squalor and terror. Her father's violent beatings, humiliations, and sexual abuse were part of daily life; her mother - also his sexual victim and savagely beaten - was no source of help.
Deprived of love and all comforts, the children would turn to each other for support and to the only adult they could trust, Auntie.
This is the story of how Jenny, her sister Kim and brother Laurence, not only survived but ultimately transcended the unimaginable degradations heaped on them. With the power of love, cunning, the blackest of black humour and an indestructible self-belief, Jenny eventually broke free of her past.
Deprived of love and all comforts, the children would turn to each other for support and to the only adult they could trust, Auntie.
This is the story of how Jenny, her sister Kim and brother Laurence, not only survived but ultimately transcended the unimaginable degradations heaped on them. With the power of love, cunning, the blackest of black humour and an indestructible self-belief, Jenny eventually broke free of her past.
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4.6
35 reviews
cala bufton
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5 August 2024
It was terrible, being treated that way, and I will say dragged up, not brought up, and I also understand the need to get out of there as soon as possible,but to leave the siblings behind knowing what was done to you was being done to them is pretty shocking .
Tracy Jane Carey
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28 July 2023
awful how she abandoned her siblings them poor kids . knowing your other two sisters are going to suffer at that man's hand ,and the woman who gave birth to them is not fit to be called Mam awful .
A Google user
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20 October 2012
How a woman can come out fighting after something like that. I read the entire thing in under 48hours. So well written and so deep and upsetting. Well worth the money
About the author
Jenny Tomlin was born and brought up in east London. She has two children and lives happily in France. Jenny is a bestselling author and children`s rights campaigner.
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