

The struggle to accept kindness, the attraction to other abusers, the inability to trust they’re all captured in this book. Everyone has heard the horror stories and rumours about ‘trauma kids’ and Kolesnik captures the essence of psychological trauma’s biggest scars in detail that it’s impossible to turn away from.

As befits a book compared to the work of such luminaries as Jack Ketchum, the horrors in this one are strictly human in their approach, and they’re all the more terrifying for it.Īs someone who works with teenagers, this is a book that was immediately unsettling and one that hit home. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.If you’ve ever had the pleasure of flipping through the pages of True Crime magazine or its ilk, you’ll be well informed for the kind of story Kolesnik has captured in the pages of her debut novella. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements.


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