Dimensions
107 x 140 x 17mm
2 Cassettes
Read by Dave Pelzer
The life-enhancing true story of one small boy's struggle to free himself from his abusive mother and find a family who will love him . . .
Dave Pelzer's story is of a child brutally beaten and starved by his emotionally unstable, alcoholic mother, a mother who played tortuous, unpredictable games. She no longer considered Dave a son, but a slave; and no longer a boy but an "it". His bed was an old army cot in the basement, his clothes were torn and smelly and when he was allowed the luxury of food it was scraps from the dog's bowl.
But throughout Dave kept alive dreams of finding a family to love him, care for him, call him their son. It took many years of struggle, deprivation and despair to find his dream and then to make something of himself in the world. This book covers the early years of his life and is an affecting and inspirational look at the horrors of child abuse and the steadfast determination of one child to survive despite the odds.
