Get Free Shipping on orders over $79
Tiny Prisoners : Two Siblings Trapped In A World Of Abuse. One Woman Determined To Free Them. - Maggie Hartley

Tiny Prisoners

Two Siblings Trapped In A World Of Abuse. One Woman Determined To Free Them.

By: Maggie Hartley

Paperback | 28 February 2017 | Edition Number 1

At a Glance

Paperback


$26.99

or 4 interest-free payments of $6.75 with

Ships in 3 to 5 business days

The true story of two neglected little children saved from abuse and transformed by the love and care of foster mother Maggie Hartley.

Evie and Elliot are scrawny, filthy and wide-eyed with fear when they turn up on foster carer Maggie Hartley's doorstep. Aged just two and three years old, this brother and sister have hardly set foot outside their own home. They have been prisoners, locked in a terrifying world of abuse, violence and neglect.

Maggie soon realises that Evie and Elliot are lacking the basic life skills we all take for granted. The outside world terrifies them; the sound of the doorbell sends them into a panic that takes hours to abate. Gradually unlocking the truth of their heart-breaking upbringing, Maggie tells their shocking true story.

From emotionally scarred and damaged little children, we see how - with warmth and dedication - Maggie transforms their lives. As this moving story unfolds, we share Maggie's joy when these children finally smile again, when they realise they do have a future after all.

About the Author

Maggie Hartley has fostered more than 300 children while being a foster carer for over twenty years. Taking on the children other carers often can't cope with, Maggie helps children that are deemed 'unadoptable' because of their behaviour or the extreme trauma that they've been through. She's looked after refugees, supported children through sexual abuse and violence court cases, cared for teenagers on remand and taught young mums how to parent their newborn babies.

More in True Stories

The Mushroom Tapes : Conversations on a Triple Murder Trial - Helen Garner
The Mysterious Case of the Victorian Female Detective - Sara Lodge
Love Stories - Trent Dalton

Hardcover

RRP $34.99

$28.75

18%
OFF
The Good Cop : The True Story of Ron Iddles - Justine Ford

RRP $24.99

$21.75

13%
OFF
Australia's Most Unbelievable True Stories - Jim Haynes

RRP $24.99

$21.75

13%
OFF
Survivors : Inspiring True Stories of Survival - Ben Hubbard

RRP $22.99

$20.75

10%
OFF
Vader : A Police Dog Story - David Raymond

RRP $34.99

$28.75

18%
OFF
True Spirit : The Aussie girl who took on the world - Jessica Watson
First Knowledges Country : Future Fire, Future Farming - Bruce Pascoe