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Etched on me : a novel
Title:
Etched on me : a novel
Author:
Crowell, Jenn, 1978-
Personal Author:
Edition:
First Washington Square Press trade paperback edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Washington Square Press, 2014.
Physical Description:
321 pages ; 22 cm
Summary:
On the surface, sixteen-year-old Lesley Holloway is just another bright new student at Hawthorn Hill, a posh all-girls' prep school north of London. Little do her classmates know that she recently ran away from home, where her father had spent years sexually abusing her. Nor does anyone know that she's secretly cutting herself as a coping mechanism ... until the day she goes too far and ends up in the hospital. Lesley spends the next two years in and out of psychiatric facilities, where she overcomes her traumatic memories and finds the support of a surrogate family. Eventually completing university and earning her degree, she is a social services success story -- until she becomes unexpectedly pregnant in her early twenties. Despite the overwhelming odds she has overcome, the same team that saved her as an adolescent will now question whether Lesley is fit to be a mother. And so she embarks upon her biggest battle yet: the fight for her unborn daughter.
General Note:
Includes a reading group guide.
Language:
English
ISBN:
9781476739069
Format :
Book