Penguin Books Australia

Every child needs to be loved. But Sally's desire to be told she was special came at a price no child should have to pay. She was only three years old when she felt her Daddy's large hands moving under her skirt when she sat on his knee.
 
Her beloved mother suspected that something was wrong, but instead of tackling her husband, she took refuge in the bottle. She died when Sally was just six...

Jackie was an unwanted child. So unwanted that her mother regularly left Jackie at her uncle's house. Which was when the nightmare started. For when his wife went out, her uncle's friends came round. He had a Special Room. In it Jackie was tied up and molested, beaten, burnt by cigarettes and urinated on. Sometimes other children were brought along. Jackie got to know the Special Room intimately.
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