A Stolen Life - Jaycee Dugard (2011)
It is hard to encompass the emotions I feel about this book, it's pretty brutal and in parts very graphic. Jaycee Dugard is the girl, who at eleven years old was snatched off the street, by a husband and wife in the US. She was kept hostage, and used as a sexual slave for 19 years, before some suspiscious authorities challenged her prescence and were able to reunite her with her family. By this time, she was also the mother of two teenage girls herself.
In this book, she tells her own story, which even though in parts it jumps in time, it really gives it an honest voice. One can only imagine how a scared little girl abused and isolated, who finds herself trying to befriend her abductor must cope as the years pass.
It certainly confirms my belief that anyone who participates in child buse or pornography should be punished to the highest degree. The wife who assisted her husband in abducting a child, and then stood by while he continued to abuse her, what is wrong with the woman? To carry on going to work every day, knowing what is happening at home - who could do that?
I hope that Jaycee and her girls are able to have a normal life now, to feel safe and feel some normal life with their family. 4/5 as the story will stick with me for some time.
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