- Paperback: 221 pages
- Publisher: Island Nation Pr Llc; Reprint edition (January 2002)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1892738341
- ISBN-13: 978-1892738349
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 10.7 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 113 g
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,105,363 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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5 Stars for a ground-breaking work!,
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This review is from: Daddys Girl (Paperback)
Although this book was written two decades ago, it is still a ground-breaking memoir. In fact, it was the first book on sexual abuse I had ever read. As a victim myself, Vale Allen's voice helped me realize my feelings were normal, I wasn't to blame and that I could make something of myself.Vale Allen uses her skills as a novelist to reveal her life-altering experience in surprisingly entertaining way. Unfortunately all these years later, there are too many new victims. I hope Daddy's Girl will help them as it helped me.
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Amazing book!!!,
By Elliott Stone (Thornhill Ontario) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Daddy's Girl (Paperback)
Charlotte Vale Allen came to our school to discuss the issue of incest. She was a phenomenal guest speaker. Her book is also excellent. She tells of her troubling encounter with incest. Hopefully her book will give individuals who experience incest the power to speak out against it!!! Thanks Chalotte!!!
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An autobiography,
By Ratmammy "The Ratmammy" (Ratmammy's Town, CA USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Daddys Girl (Paperback)
DADDY'S GIRL is Charlotte Vale Allen's story - it is her autobiography. What makes this book important, is that it is NOT just any story. It is a story of incest and of one person's brave ordeal in telling it to the public. Ms Allen grew up in a family that seemed to thrive on lies. And the biggest lies that surrounded the family were the problems they had with Daddy. He was abusive to all of them: he constantly yelled at her mother; he tried often to physically hurt her. Her brothers were treated a little better, but they too were filled with anger and fear for their father. Charlotte, however, developed a "special" bond, that continued for many years. Because of this abuse, Charlotte grew up with a number of neuroses and fears that followed her into adulthood. The book takes place in the present, with flashbacks starting from her earliest memories. What I liked about the way the story was written, was that it helped us see how her past affected her present life. She took the time to compare herself and her daughter, and the relationship they had, to what she had with her own mother, many years ago. Her relationship with her father destroyed her ability to trust any man, and she shows the reader how she slowly over came this. I found DADDY'S GIRL, despite its theme, an easy book to read. Ms Allen's style of writing enables the reader to see HER world through the eyes of herself as a child. I think this is important because it helps convey what she truly went through. What's most important is that she was able to tell the story from her point of view. If it had been written from a third person narrative, the book would have been a more impersonal telling, and would not have come across as poignant as it did. I highly recommend DADDY'S GIRL.
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