Jane Smith has 2 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 3 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4★ across 9 ratings. The most-rated is Trafficked Girl: Abused. Abandoned. Exploited. This Is My Story of Fighting Back.
Trafficked Girl: Abused. Abandoned. Exploited. This Is My Story of Fighting Back
Summary
When Zoe was taken into care at the age of 13, she thought she was finally going to escape from the cruel abuse she had suffered throughout her childhood. Then social services placed her in a residential unit known to be 'a target for prostitution', and suddenly Zoe's life was worse than it had ever been before. Abused and ostracized by her mother, humiliated by her father's sexual innuendos, physically assaulted and bullied by her eldest brother, even as a young child Zoe thought she deserved the desperately unhappy life she was living. 'I've sharpened a knife for you,' her mother told her the first time she noticed angry red wounds on her daughter's arms. And when Zoe didn't kill herself, her mother gave her whisky, which she drank in the hope that it would dull the miserable, aching loneliness of her life. One day at school Zoe showed her teacher the livid bruises that were the result of her mother's latest physical assault, and within days she was taken into care. Zoe had been at Denver House for just three weeks when an older girl asked if she'd like to go to a party then took her to a house where there were just three men. Zoe was a virgin until that night, when two of the men raped her. Having returned to the residential unit in the early hours of the morning, when she told a member of staff what had happened to her, her social worker made a joke about it, then took her to get the morning-after pill. For Zoe, the indifference of the staff at the residential unit seemed like further confirmation of what her mother had always told her - she was worthless. Before long, she realised that the only way to survive in the unit was to go to the 'parties' the older girls were paid to take her to, drink the drinks, smoke the cannabis and try to blank out what was done to her when she was abused, controlled and trafficked around the country. No action was taken by the unit's staff or social workers when Zoe asked for their help, and without anyone to support or protect her, the horrific abuse continued for the next few years, even after she left the unit. But in her heart Zoe was always a fighter. This is the harrowing yet uplifting story of how she finally broke free of the abuse and neglect that destroyed her childhood and obtained justice for her years of suffering.
©2018 Zoe Patterson and Jane Smith (P)2018 HarperCollins Publishers
30 Minutes to Make the Right Decision (Executive Summary)
Summary
What do you do when you need to make an important decision? Have another cup of coffee? Hope it will go away? Decision-making skills are crucial to good management. Be confident that you have made the right decision every time by spending just 30 minutes with this practical audiobook. Learn how to think through the problem, generate a range of options, weigh up the pros and cons, and make the best choice. Tackle any problem or crisis with confidence, knowing that you can make the right decision and stick to it.
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