Product Description
Walking Through Front Doors: Seeking Justice for a Stolen Childhood
Author: Claudine Shiels
Format: Paperback
On a summer evening in 1967, seven-year-old Claudine Brown sat in the back of a car stalled on a railway line in the suburbs of Cape Town, watching a train come towards them while her mother sat frozen at the wheel. Nothing about the day had warned them.
The aftermath wrecked what remained of her childhood and left Claudine and her younger sister Lisa old before their time. Her mother, undone by post-traumatic shock, left the family, and her father remarried quickly for comfort.
Through the years of exploitation and physical, emotional and sexual abuse that followed, Claudine held on to one defence: she remembered what an ordinary life looked like, and she set about finding her way back to it.
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