A Stolen Life - Softcover

Dugard, Jaycee Lee

Softcover

ISBN 10: 085720713X ISBN 13: 9780857207135

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd, 2012

Synopsis

This is Jaycee Dugard's raw and powerful memoir. It tells her own story of being kidnapped as an 11 year old and held captive for over 18 years.

About this title

About the Author:

Jaycee Dugard is 30 years old and has two daughters.

Review:

'Jaycee tells of horror years as rapist's captive... Today, her memoir A Stolen Life was released to the media. It will go on sale this week' Evening Standard 12/7 'Prisoner's life of pain becomes swift bestseller... Jaycee Dugard, the California woman who spent 18 years as a prisoner in the back garden of a sex offender until she was found in 2009, has described her astonishing ordeal in a memoir which has moved to the top of the Amazon bestseller list even before its release in bookshops today' Independent 12/7 'This week's entertainment releases... No. 2 A Stolen Life - Jaycee Dugard. The US girl kidnapped and held captive for eighteen years tells her story in an unblinking and harrowing narrative' Mail on Sunday 10/7 'The 30-year-old Californian gives an unflinching account of her abduction as an eleven-year-old, and he 18 years spent as Philip Craig Garrido's captive' TNT Magazine 11/7 'In an interview with ABC News on Sunday, Jaycee Dugard, 31, talked calmly of how she was kidnapped by a couple and held captive for 18 years - there was "a switch" she shut off to survive emotionally - but was in tears telling how she felt, at 14, on seeing the first of two girls fathered by the man: she didn't know how to protect the child, but "I knew I could never let anything happen to her". Dugard spoke on the eve of a memoir of her captivity, A Stolen Life. Last month Phillips Garrido, 60, got life after admitting guilt, in a deal whereby Nancy Garrido, 55, got 36 years to life after admitting guilt' Guardian 12/7 'London's Bestsellers (Daunt W1; Foyles W1; Goldsborough Books W1; Heywood Hill W1; John Sandoe SW3; Waterstone's W8). Dark Horse: A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard. Terror Memoir' Evening Standard 15/7

About this edition

• Publisher: Simon & Schuster Ltd
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 085720713X
• ISBN 13: 9780857207135
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 275