When Daddy Comes Home
Автор: Toni Maguire
Год издания: 0000
SHE FINALLY THOUGHT SHE WAS SAFE…Toni Maguire, author of Don't Tell Mummy, takes up the story of her tragic childhood where she left off, revealing the awful truth about what happened when her father, sent to jail for abusing her, was released, and came home…Toni Maguire's father abused her from the age of six, and was only found out when Toni fell pregnant, losing the child from a botched abortion. Called to her father's trial. she gave the damning evidence that put him away, and hoped that with his influence banished, she and her mother could have a happy, idyllic life once more. But her mother was unable to face the truth of what her husband had perpetrated on their daughter, and waited patiently for his return.One day, two years later, Toni walked in to find her dreaded father sitting in the living room, on day release from prison. Toni knew then she had to leave, but stayed with her mother for another two years, desperately hoping her mother would choose Toni's wellbeing over that of her father. Yet when Joe Maguire was released, Toni was despatched to collect him from the station, and from the moment he re-entered the house she knew nothing had changed in his desires, although the threat of imprisonment was enough to prevent him from acting on them. Toni was forced to leave her home, and her mother made it known she was no longer welcome.Traumatised and alone, Toni was unable to cope, and was admitted to a psychiatric hospital, sinking deeper into despair every day, finally being transferred to the dead-end ward with hope of recovery abandoned. But paradoxically it was when all hope seemed gone that Toni slowly began to improve, by sheer force of indomitable will – but the ultimate step occurred when she finally admitted to herself that her mother, whom she wanted so desperately to love her, had known all along what her father had done.
Daddy-Long-Legs
Автор: Джин Уэбстер
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Джин Уэбстер (Элис Джейн Чендлер) – американская писательница, внучатая племянница Марка Твена. Она прожила всего сорок лет, умерла во время родов. Ее повести в письмах принесли ей мировую славу. Поставленный на Бродвее по мотивам этих произведений спектакль, созданные в разные годы киноверсии имели шумный успех. В первой экранизации роль героини сыграла знаменитая актриса немого кино Мери Пикфорд. "Длинноногий дядюшка" – очень известное произведение Джин Уэбстер. Кто он такой, Длинноногий Дядюшка? Молодая воспитанница колледжа видела его только однажды, со спины. Он устроил ее в колледж с условием, что она будет писать ему письма без надежды на ответ. И исчез из ее жизни… Пытаясь разгадать тайну Длинноногого Дядюшки, в действительности девочка-подросток открывает мир и собственную душу. Это трогательное, полное юмора произведение оставляет ощущение свежести и тепла. Легкий и доступный язык Уэбстер делает книгу привлекательной даже для тех, кто еще только начинает изучать английский язык.
Diet that works. In every life there comes a moment when one realizes that he went not there. But not everyone has the opportunity to get out on their own.
Автор: Sergey Demyanov
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This book contains my 10-year experience of the “vital diet” change lives. It was possible to reconcile the irreconcilable: slimming diet with a diabetic diet. Yes, and the first type of diabetes mellitus, and suffer them to only 10% of diabetics. But I managed to win: even when left without metabolism – the basis of harmony. The fate of an order has complicated my task, at times reducing my chances of living graceful. But I managed to win: I did. And so – I have the right to write about it.