Eden's Story
Thrown Away Children, Book 3
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Melanie Crawley
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Ashley is a young single mum raising her daughter, Eden, and working hard to do the very best job she can - until one night she can't find a babysitter and makes the decision to leave Eden home alone for a couple of hours, asleep inside a wardrobe. It is an action that begins a terrible downward spiral for both of them.
When Eden arrives at experienced foster carer Louise Allen's home, she has entered the care system because her mother is in prison. Eden is five years old and will not speak to any human. She begins exhibiting some other disturbing behaviours alongside the mutism, too, including torturing the family pets she loves. This eventually leads Louise to discover the pain and tragic reality behind Eden's Story.
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Stephen Smith is the boy who did not exist. Born out of wedlock in the early 1960s, Steve's parents - both devout Catholics - had felt so 'shamed' by their son's illegitimate birth that they hid him away from the world by locking him in the cellar...for 13 years. Apart from a few admissions to hospital as a result of his 'imprisonment', Steve remained in the coal cellar of the family home where he was deprived of daylight, his childhood, school and human contact until he'd reached his teenage years.
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5 out of 5 stars
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At first I thought this was horror fiction
- By Ruth Malan on 04-11-20
By: Stephen Smith
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Broken
- The Most Shocking Childhood Story Ever Told. An Inspirational Author Who Survived It.
- By: Shy Keenan
- Narrated by: Judy Mason
- Length: 10 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 886
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 837
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Story5 out of 5 stars 835
I was born and broken in Birkenhead, abused from infancy by a network of every kind of pervert from ‘thinks it’s love’ to ‘show it hurts’. I was unwanted, beaten, sold, swapped, photographed, filmed, left for dead, corrupted, blamed, betrayed, ignored and orphaned. But I was also born with a fire inside me. I call it my Phoenix Fire. I am no victim—that word only describes what happened to me. Nor am I a survivor because that implies I am over it. I am a Phoenix—a work in progress. This is my story....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Unbelievable Story
- By Amazon Customer on 09-07-23
By: Shy Keenan
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The Mother Next Door
- Medicine, Deception, and Munchausen by Proxy
- By: Andrea Dunlop, Mike Weber
- Narrated by: Andrea Dunlop
- Length: 8 hrs and 8 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 287
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 275
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 275
No bond is more sacred than the one between a mother and child. And no figure is more sympathetic than a mother whose child faces a life-threatening illness. But what if the mother is the reason for the illness? What if the sympathy is the point? With help from some of the top MBP experts in the world, Dunlop and Weber uncover the complex maze of psychological, systemic, and cultural issues that compound MBP and offer solutions for how we might find our way out.
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5 out of 5 stars
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How close to home this message was
- By Jenny Wootton on 06-03-25
By: Andrea Dunlop, and others
I love Louise Allen
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nice story but mossing details
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I really liked Edens story and the Author seems like an amazing woman.
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i can't get enough
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Perhaps the royal family should be required to be foster care providers.
Beautiful outcome
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Louise does a fantastic job telling the stories of these children. As well as expressing what it must be like for her and her family. I find myself yelling at my speaker out loud during the hard to gear parts.
It took a bit longer
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Beautiful Story
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Tears
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