Tell No One (Story of Child Abuse Survival) [Kindle Edition]

not much makes me cry and it takes alot to get to me. this book had me crying my eyes out. i couldnt imaging myself putting up with it. i wanted to jump into the book and give sarahs mom a peice of my mind. i hate books like this because i sometimes cant beleive people would be so cruel but i also love books like this because it makes people more aware of things going om im life. i would recomend this book to anyone with a heart.

Don't get me wrong, there are some good self-pubbed books out there (MY KIND OF CRAZY: Living in a Bipolar World is my best pick so far) but many of the self-published books, especially those in the personal memoir genre, are pretty awful. No matter how interesting the blurb, I'm always a little wary - is this going to be another really badly written whine?

Tell No One, however, is refreshing in its honesty and its pathos, and (miraculously!) also has very few typos, grammatical wince-fests, formatting errors, etc.

It feels a little weird giving five stars (can one really _love_ a book about child abuse?), but I can't in conscience give less.

It's evident from the moment Sarah's mother appears that she has some fairly severe mental health issues. One can only cringe at the pain of a four year old forced to deal with a highly unstable mother without support from anyone, and not being in a position to understand what is wrong.

Unusually, this book also shows a child being rescued from a horrendous situation, and beginning to heal in her mid teens - again, very refreshing. So often hope is downplayed.

There's little if any self-pity here, and much that is moving. Highly commendable, and exceptionally good (and unusual!) for a self-pubbed memoir.

One can only hope that Sarah can eventually forgive her mother just for her own sake, so that those wounds do not fester. It is, however, encouraging to anyone who has survived painful times to read of a child who has been through so much growing into a woman who has survived, even thrived, and now has a happy marriage and children of her own.

I agree with the other reviewer in that we need to read these types of books in order to be aware of what is going on around us. As a trainer in safeguarding children I am all to aware of the horrors that children suffer even today in the 21st century. Sarah's story shows the dilemma for these children who are emotionally ill-equipped to deal with what is happening to them and craving the love from the very one's who are torturing them. Sadly for Sarah, her final triumph lead her to be split from her younger sister.
A very powerful read, simply written and difficult to put down.
Not for the faint hearted.