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(More customer reviews)Tanjas Darke's book is quite simply a testimony to the strength and resilience of the human spirit. This is a woman who for 20 years was degraded and sexually abused by the very person who by rights should have protected her from such horrors. Her own father.
I have read many books about abused children, but this book is the definitive of all those books, written by a survivor, it's never sentimental, it's often brutally honest to the point of it being horrific but most of all it packs an emotional punch that could polax Mike Tyson in one blow.
I actually came across this book by accident. Late one the evening I was watching a program on SKY and there was a documentary about Tanjas life. I sat mesmerised through the whole program and when it was over I went onto the Internet to find out more about her.
It was then I found out she had written a book about her life, "Flight of the Dancing Bird." Sadly it is not available in the UK and I ended up buying it second hand from the USA as it is out of print even here.
This is a book that should NEVER be out of print. It is a book that every High School Library should have on its shelves, it also is a book that every mental hospital in the world should make its Psychiatric staff read.
It is a book about an ordinary girl who suffered the most appalling of abuse and had the courage to carry on living. It is also a book about a survivor who fell in love with a good man and is now in a loving relationship.
I read it the moment it arrived, from cover to cover and it was one of the most painful experiences in my life. However I don't regret reading it for one minute because Tanjas Darke is a heroine to me. Because of her I am now able to look in the mirror each day and not be ashamed of myself anymore.
Thank you Tanjas, you've helped another bird to finally find her wings...
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The true story of Tanjas Darke who suffered terrifying and degrading experiences at the hands of her father for more than twenty years. Her early life was spent in Vanuatu, where her mother made the fateful decision to abandon her to be raised by her father. From the age of nine he manipulated, abused and controlled her: she became his sex slave. Unable to believe in a life of freedom, it took an incestuous pregnancy to give her the courage to break away. Following a near-death experience, Tanjas reported her father's years of abuse, and was the principal witness against him in a celebrated court trial in 2000. He is now serving a prison sentence for his crimes. This is her own account of her life and how she overcame her appalling experiences to create a new life.
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