The Unseen (Paperback)

Paperback. This is a villain origin story.It is not a redemption arc. It is not a sympathetic portrait. It is a clinical document of how a specific kind of damage, applied to a specific kind of power, in the complete absence of intervention, produces a predator.Most abused children do not become monsters. That fact matters, and this book does not dispute it. But some do. And the question this story asks is not why, but how. Step by step. Institution by institution. Failure by failure.The sexual assaults depicted in this book are shown through their aftermath and their impact on survivors. They are never written for titillation. The survivors are named, given voices, and treated as people, because they are. Without their chapters, this would be a portrait of a predator. With them, it is a portrait of predation. This item is printed on demand. Shipping may be from our UK warehouse or from our Australian or US warehouses, depending on stock availability.