About Broken
Shy Keenan was not meant to survive her childhood. Her mother beat her so severely that she was deaf and nearly blind by her first day in school. Her stepsister thought nothing of pouring boiling water over her, and virtually every day she was raped by her stepfather. At age 10 she was sold to a gang of dockworkers, viciously attacked, and left for dead in a field with a fractured skull. Today, Shy is an internationally respected advocate in the fight for justice for victims of child sexual abuse. Six years ago, her testimony secured the imprisonment of her stepfather and his associates for a catalogue of crimes against children. This success was achieved only after a journey through extensive psychiatric care, prison, and near-suicide. Shy’s experiences expose the extreme wickedness of which some are capable, but also tell a story of hope, strength, and courage.
- Complete Title: Broken
- Format: Hardcover
- Language: English
- Number of Pages: 305
- Publication Time: March 1, 2008
- Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
- ISBN: 0340937424
- ISBN13: 9780340937426
About Shy Keenan
Shy Keenan
Reviews Broken
Eva-Marie
‘soul-raping torture’These are the authors words describing her going against her abusers defense team many, many years after the fact. I’d use those words to describe almost every single experience o…
Jeannie
This was such an emotionally written book (that affected me so deeply)that it has taken me some time to think about how to word my review. BROKEN is a heart breaking account of YES one of the worst ca…
Carol Peace
This is the most harrowing book I have read, I cannot believe how she was let down by the authorities. The social workers, police and even the courts all let her down even when her father was convicte…
Love
This book made me ponder why I read books of such genre…I always have been fascinated by this type of story because of my childhood and what goes on in a persons mind on why they do these horrible t…
Laura
It is easy to write this book off as another squeamish, unimportant childhood memoir. The genre has taken off in recent years, after publishers realised the public thirst for “true life, success overc…
Olivia Michelle
Reading this book reminded me of my own childhood, when I endured abuse. Shy’s story also reminded me that many people go through much more abuse than I ever did, and if they can overcome it then so c…
Sabrina Rutter
I will never understand how a community could fail a child that cried so desperately for help. Not only did this book make me sad it also made me angry at those who failed her.As a child I always felt…
Amanda Knight
Sexually abused from the age of four, sold to paedophiles for only £15, a heatbreaking autobiography of how Shy turned the tables around on her abusers and building a new life as a mother and childre…
Dawn Bates
ALthough I say i liked this book, it made me extremely angry. Reading about another’s sorrow is always humbling (for me) but reading this book made me really angry, and yet inspired. FOr some one to s…