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Tiny Prisoners
- Author
- Maggie Hartley
- Narrator
- Penny MacDonald
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 10 October 2017
- Run Time
- 7 hours 7 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Maggie soon realizes that Evie and Elliot are lacking the basic life skills we all take for granted. The outside world terrifies them; the sound of the doorbell sends them into a panic that takes hours to abate. Gradually unlocking the truth of their heart-breaking upbringing, Maggie tells their shocking true story.
From emotionally scarred and damaged little children, we see how—with warmth and dedication—Maggie transforms their lives. As this moving story unfolds, we share Maggie's joy when these children finally smile again, when they realize they do have a future after all.
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Details
- Author
- Maggie Hartley
- Narrator
- Penny MacDonald
- Duration
- 7 hours 7 minutes
- Release Date
- 10 October 2017
- ISBN
- 9781541481299
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Biography: general, Violence and abuse in society, Coping with abuse, Memoirs, Child abuse, Coping with abuse, Relationships and families: advice and issues, Adoption and fostering, Adoption and fostering: advice and issues
Synopsis
Evie and Elliot are scrawny, filthy, and wide-eyed with fear when they turn up on foster carer Maggie Hartley's doorstep. Aged just two and three years old, this brother and sister have hardly set foot outside their own home. They have been prisoners, locked in a terrifying world of abuse, violence, and neglect.Maggie soon realizes that Evie and Elliot are lacking the basic life skills we all take for granted. The outside world terrifies them; the sound of the doorbell sends them into a panic that takes hours to abate. Gradually unlocking the truth of their heart-breaking upbringing, Maggie tells their shocking true story.From emotionally scarred and damaged little children, we see how—with warmth and dedication—Maggie transforms their lives. As this moving story unfolds, we share Maggie's joy when these children finally smile again, when they realize they do have a future after all.
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