Seventeen-year-old Gavin Hillstone is resigned to being miserable for the rest of his life. Left alone in the world after his parents died in a fire when he was four, he was placed in foster care, which for him meant ending up in an abusive home with an alcoholic adoptive father. Gavin’s only escape is in taking and...
"You don't accept your consequences. You live with them" The story of a headstrong ballerina and a visionary filmmaker. -based on a true story-
Ashley is a 15 year old girl who has to deal with lots of things like self harm, suicide, GCSEs and bullying.This story sees her struggle with these problems and try to overcome them, but will she make it out alive? Or will everything get the better of her?
This is the very personal diary of a woman who has had to face up to buried memories of child abuse, the result of many years of refusing to accept that anything was wrong. This is the eventual acceptance that allowed her to heal and grow stronger. This woman realizes many have had to face this in their lives, she unf...
A book of poetry aimed at people who have or are struggling with the addiction of self injury. These are poems highlighting the growing problems of self harm. It isn't judging, though, and doesn't insist that the person suffering MUST stop or MUST recover, but it gives that option and emphasizes the good things about...
When her mother and father die in a car crash, Sammy is lost. The pain that threatens to swallow her up is only relieved momentarily by a terrible numbness. She doesn't feel like doing anything and happiness seems like it's a long way away. But when her grandparents ask, she insists on going on holidays with them duri...
Melissa is a depressed 14 year old girl who gets bullied to the point she can't take it anymore. No-one likes her, not even her own family. Her dad started abusing her when she was only 3 years old, and her mother died before she turned 2. But once she reached the age of 11 she ran away. She now lives in an abandoned...
I don't know what possessed me to do it. Maybe the strong anger that bubbled inside of my body from the previous events that occurred only moments before. Maybe the fact that he thinks he controls the school got under my skin and irritated my whole interior and exterior. Maybe it was simply the fact that he angered me...
