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Ellen Prescott is the pseudonym of an award-winning writer who has also worked as a resource person in the field of child sexual abuse.
A true story about Ellen's discovery that her daughters were being sexually abused by their father. There are no arrests, no happy endings and no one gets healed . Instead, it's a painful account of how the children are harmed and how communities respond to such accusations. At a time when so much focus is on convictions and criminals, I found this a moving reminder that the reality of these situations is much more complex -- Ros Coward Observer Ellen Prescott writes with a literary flair that adds to the power of her story. She hits the reader in the gut on page 1: In 1982, when my daughters were four and one, I decided to kill them ... I was so in love with them, there at the door of their bedroom, that all I could think of was murder. You'd have to be anesthetized to put the book down at this point Toronto Star I recommend it to anyone, including most physicians who need a better understanding of human responses to suffering -- Willard Edwin Smith, Bsc, Md, Frcp Well paced and at times excruciatingly well written Quill and Quire This is a grip-ping story which I read from start to fin-ish at one sitting Geist
