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Empty Chairs [Kindle Edition]

Stacey Danson
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Stacey Danson, lived through and beyond horrific child abuse.

This book tells of her brutal beginnings, the streets of Sydney at the age of eleven were preferable to the hell she endured at home. She ran, and those streets became her home for five years.

She was alone, ill, and afraid.

Stacey also had an unshakeable belief that she would do more than just survive her life.

She would not allow her future to be determined by the horrors of her childhood.

She reached out for something different; there had to be more to life; if she could only find it.

She had a dream of a life where pain and humiliation had no place.

She was determined to find that life.

Empty Chairs is the beginning of the journey.

Now she is living the dream.

(SEVERAL REVIEWERS OF THIS BOOK WERE SO RIVETED BY IT THAT THEY FELT IT WAS FAR TOO SHORT AT 228 PAGES. GOOD NEWS! THE SEQUEL - 'FAINT ECHOES OF LAUGHTER' - WILL BE RELEASED BY NIGHT PUBLISHING IN NOVEMBER / DECEMBER 2011)

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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful
Format:Kindle Edition
Simply put, this book is a classic - a superbly written gruesome real life horror story - and self-penned to boot, no ghost writer in sight (they would never write as well as Stacey anyway). It is direct, it is transcendent, it does not shut its eyes for a single second. Stacey Danson does for child abuse what Primo Levi did for the Holocaust - she survived it and rose above it (although Primo Levi committed suicide in the end).

Talking of suicide, you can see those chairs of the title emptying as apparently 13 out of the 15 people in the street gang Stacey joined at the age of 11 are now dead.

I am not easily reduced to shock. I used to volunteer for Amnesty International and know well enough what people are capable of doing the other people, but this is something else.

How do you prostitute a toddler of 3? How do you allow man after man to rape your daughter at the age of 5? How can you allow them to mutilate and torture her at the age of 10?

Rumour has it that Stacey Danson wrote this book because of a promise she made to a friend who subsequently committed suicide before she had put one word down on paper.

I have read the interviews. Stacey had to relive every moment in writing this book and, absolutely extraordinarily, it is not a bitter book, it is suprisingly uplifting, as Primo Levi's 'If This Is A Man' was.

There are lists out there of books to read before you die. This is a book to read to stop others dying.

It describes a continuing outrage, a living hell, outragously well. This is one hell of a book.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful
Empty Chairs 16 Jun 2011
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This will take you to another world. One nobody should ever have to inhabit! Let alone a child. There is a line in the book ' I must have been inhaling stupidity fumes that day.' Nothing could be further from the truth. This girl is not stupid. She has grown into an intelligent, strong, warm and funny woman. I salute you.
I urge you to buy this book, read it and recommend it to others. Thank you.
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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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Stacey Danson's story is both thought-provoking and heart-breaking but told with an incredible courage and refusal to attain victim status.

Quite rightly those of us with comfortable lives should feel uncomfortable when we read this tale of courage and survival against the odds of a young girl in 1960s Sydney. Sometimes I forgot that Ms Danson was only eleven while I was reading this

This story is told with a defiant courage in na voice that needs to be heard again and again until something is done about the issues concerned. It's time we stopped looking the other way. A tear-jerking vivid true life tale that flays the conscience raw.

In "Blowin' in the Wind" Dylan asks "How many times can a man turn his head and pretend that he just didn't see?" How long are we going to look the other way while children are raped, beaten and killed by those who are supposed to protect them?

I think this book should be compulsory reading for all those who work in Child protection services and if Ms Danson's book saves just one child from a life of misery then it will be worth it.
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Empty Chairs
Very, very interesting book. Sad, but also really inspiring.
I have just finished the follow up book. Faint Echoes of Laughter, i really wanted to know how things ended up. Read more
Published 13 days ago by Lynette Tweedale
Gripping true life tale........
this book is written by Stacey Danson - but unlike other books this one is well written, and versely correct! Read more
Published 19 days ago by Ness
could not stop thinking after this
After reading the first three or four pages I nearly put this book down. It frightend me,it told me things I did not want to know. Read more
Published 21 days ago by the reader
Not sure I believe that this is a true story.....
The beginning of this book was beyond belief that a mother could abuse her child in this way at the tender age of 6 and left me penting up some anger and cursing. Read more
Published 25 days ago by Maxine, Slough
What an Inspiration Stacey Is.
This book is a truly inspirational read - and Stacey is an incredible person with the strength of character that you rarely come across in life. Read more
Published 26 days ago by miss marmite
empty chairs
i have always been great with words and i know how to explain my feelings in most situations. i am not shy and always speak up,

but for the first time in my life, i am... Read more
Published 1 month ago by lynne
A must read
I think this is the first book that has ever made me cry .The way Stacey has written the book I felt like I was there watching it all going on . Read more
Published 1 month ago by Heather
Shocking
This book is a real eye opener and it has taken a lot of courage for her to write this, it's a must read book, her life on the streets, the people she meets for good and bad, i... Read more
Published 1 month ago by mrscliff
Moving story
I found this to be a really moving true story. I don't normally read books like this but I read the reviews and thought I would give it a try. Read more
Published 1 month ago by Vicky
absolutley brilliant
when I first put this book onto my kindle, it was one of a few. When I began to read it, I thought "oh dear, don't think I'm going to be able to read this" without spoiling this... Read more
Published 1 month ago by EJ
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