How to Cook Your Daughter: A MemoirHarper Collins, 6. okt 2009 - 288 pages From the daughter of the bestselling author of Father Joe: the poignant and ultimately hopeful memoir of a young girl’s struggle to live a normal childhood in the chaotic seventies, and to overcome sexual abuse by her famous father After more than thirty years of silence, Hendra has decided to reveal the truth. In this poignant memoir, she reveals the full story behind the New York Times article that rocked the world and detailed her father’s crimes. But Jessica’s story is no footnote to her father’s story. No One Was Listening is also the inspiring story of her own journey, and how she was finally able to find healing within, after years of struggling with anorexia, bulimia, and low self-esteem. Set against the backdrop of the chaotic seventies, Hendra’s memoir follows Jessica and her sister Kathy as they strove to make a normal life for themselves amidst the madness, sex, and drug abuse that her parents and their friends—many of the household names in the world of show business—participated in. No One Was Listening reveals the hope and heartache of a young girl who was faced with a loss of innocence at an early age, who faced a slow and painful recovery, and who finally found contentment and peace within. |
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... a young woman struggling with bulimia and anorexia to the mother of two who becomes convinced that challenging her father is the only way to reclaim a life that never seemed her own . 1005 HOW TO COOK YOUR DAUGHTER HOW TO COOK YOUR ...
... mother from Judy to Judith . When my father left us , we had , without a single word between us , shed the names we knew when my family lived together , as if signaling some metamorphosis . That's what it had been , a metamorphosis . We ...
... mother's , and retained just a slight British accent . The closed " a " sound . The silent " 1. " The enun- ciation that comes from using the front part of the mouth and the lips to form the words . And if it wasn't his voice , it might ...
... mother and father . And though I was four and too young to understand exactly what had happened , I was old enough to be scared . They found him in his Hollywood apartment , and those who knew him — my parents included - gathered the ...
... mother grew up in Wimbledon , a suburb of London . Her father , Alfred Christmas , owned a chemist's shop . She , her sister , and her brother lived with my grandmother and grandfather in a mock Tudor house built on a lot leveled by a V ...