- Hardcover: 255 pages
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster (Sep 1980)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0671610244
- ISBN-13: 978-0671610241
- Product Dimensions: 21.3 x 14.2 x 2.5 cm
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37 of 38 people found the following review helpful
Grasps the pain and struggle of sexual abuse
8 Nov 1999
Format:Paperback
This is the best book I have ever read that captured the struggle that a women had to go through from her childhood into her married years. It not only shows her reaction to the abuse but, it shows how family and friends reacted to knowing the secret she kept for so many years. I recommend this book for anyone who has suffered sexual abuse, their partners, friends, family members and for anyone else who would like to gain knowledge on the subject.
21 of 21 people found the following review helpful
Seeing through her eyes
27 Aug 2001
Format:Paperback
I got this because I wanted to understand the people I know who went throught this. This is the real story of a woman who went through hell. She describes what her father put her through and how it affected her adult years. She shares the emotions she went through during the abuse. ...how dirty she felt. ...and how this affected relationships as an adult. This is something everyone should read. This isn't simply a psychology book discussing how abuse affects people. This is one person's detailed example of what the abuse does to someone.
24 of 25 people found the following review helpful
Outstanding!
17 Jun 2002
Format:Paperback
Of all the books written on the subject of child abuse, this book (one of the very first published) stands alone as a singular accomplishment. It is honest and insightful, yet never overly graphic. The author brings her considerable writing talent to bear on her reflection of how years of abuse shaped her as an adult and a parent. Never bitter, never placing blame, Charlotte Vale Allen offers a potent look at the insidious permanent effects of her childhood experience. It is a gracious, heartfelt autobiography in which the author not only never names her parents but, in many ways, offers an understanding of the family dynamics at play that is nothing less than remarkable. To read her fiction and then to read this book is to see a very full portrait of a woman with the heart of a lion and a powerful gift of insight into the behavior, not only of others but also of her own self--past and present. It is the definitive book to read in order to comprehend how an extraordinary child coped with an ongoing horror and yet emerged to take what she'd learned and turn it to the good by writing books that always offer viable explanations for what is, so often, inaccessible to most of us. In its own right, Daddy's Girl is a quiet masterpiece.
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