Unbroken - Used, beaten but never broken. My story of survival and hope.

Madeleine Black

• Publisher: John Blake
• Year: 2017
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781786064967
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

For many years after that night, my memories of what happened after he held the blade to my throat and threatened my life were fragmented... difficult to piece together. It was too extreme, too violent for me to understand.
Violently gang-raped when she was thirteen years old, and raped three more times before the age of eighteen, Madeleine has experienced more trauma in her life than most ever will.
Living in a state of shock and self-loathing, it took her years of struggle to confront the buried memories of that first attack and begin to undo the damage.
Yet, after growing up with a burden no teenager should ever have to shoulder, she found the heart to carry out the best revenge plan of all: leading a fulfilling and happy life. But the road to piecing her life back together was long and painful. For Madeleine, forgiveness was the key. True forgiveness takes genuine effort. It is the ultimate act of courage.
In Unbroken, Madeleine tells her moving and empowering story, as she discovers that our lives are not defined by what knocks us down - they are defined by how we get back up.

Table of contents

• Cover
• PRAISE
• TITLE PAGE
• DEDICATION
• EPIGRAPH
• AUTHOR’S NOTE
• CONTENTS
• CHAPTER ONE: ONE NIGHT
• CHAPTER TWO: FORTY-FOUR BOWS
• CHAPTER THREE: NUMBING OUT
• CHAPTER FOUR: THE UNIT
• CHAPTER FIVE: COMING HOME
• CHAPTER SIX: ANOTHER NIGHT
• CHAPTER SEVEN: OXFORD STREET
• CHAPTER EIGHT: AND ANOTHER…
• CHAPTER NINE: THE NOTE
• CHAPTER TEN: KIBBUTZ
• CHAPTER ELEVEN: ASHKELON
• CHAPTER TWELVE: AND AGAIN
• CHAPTER THIRTEEN: STEVEN
• CHAPTER FOURTEEN: LOVE
• CHAPTER FIFTEEN: BEST REVENGE
• CHAPTER SIXTEEN: STEP ONE
• CHAPTER SEVENTEEN: MOTHERHOOD
• CHAPTER EIGHTEEN: MOVING ON
• CHAPTER NINETEEN: DISSOCIATION/ PTSD
• CHAPTER TWENTY: HOME BIRTH
• CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE: RUNNING
• CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO: COLLEGE
• CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE: THERAPY
• CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR: MUM’S SECRET
• CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE: EMAHÓ
• CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX: THE MONK
• CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN: MEMORIES
• CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT: TELLING STEVEN
• CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE: ALL OF ONE NIGHT
• CHAPTER THIRTY: FORGIVENESS
• CHAPTER THIRTY-ONE: THROUGH THE BODY
• CHAPTER THIRTY-TWO: THAWING
• CHAPTER THIRTY-THREE: FACING FEARS
• CHAPTER THIRTY-FOUR: MY PARENTS
• CHAPTER THIRTY-FIVE: WINDSURFING
• CHAPTER THIRTY-SIX: KARATE
• CHAPTER THIRTY-SEVEN: WEIGHT TRAINING
• CHAPTER THIRTY-EIGHT: WORKING WITH MEN
• CHAPTER THIRTY-NINE: REVELATION
• CHAPTER FORTY: INK
• CHAPTER FORTY-ONE: GIVING IT OXYGEN
• CHAPTER FORTY-TWO: GOING PUBLIC
• CHAPTER FORTY-THREE: MEETING MARIAN
• CHAPTER FORTY-FOUR: ENDINGS AND BEGINNINGS
• ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR
• COPYRIGHT