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Unbeaten
- The Story of My Brutal Childhood
- Narrated by: Kim Woodburn
- Length: 2 hrs and 3 mins
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Summary
For Kim Woodburn finding fame in her 60s in the smash hit television series How Clean is Your House? with fellow dust-buster Aggie Mackenzie is like living a fairy tale. Often she has simply wished that she had never been born, for Kim has overcome horrific emotional and physical abuse both at the hands of her alcoholic mother and her philandering, sexually abusive father. In her brave and revealing story Kim's memories of growing up are not of love and cuddles, but of beatings and random cruelty.
Shuttled between the brutal houses of her warring parents, a succession of miserable children's homes and a grim convent - Kim's past has cast a long shadow over her life.
But just before her 16th birthday she finally made her escape. It has taken decades of hard work, and a wonderfully happy marriage to conquer depression but now she has emerged unbowed and unbeaten as Britain's Queen of Clean.
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- maureen
- 09-09-21
Happy ending
heartbreaking but she got everything she deserved eventually. I'm so glad she got her happy ending. 😊
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- Amazon Customer
- 09-05-21
Loved her story
Kim had a very hard and difficult life but her in strength saw her through , she never gave up after everything she has been through.
I admire her so much
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- HappyShopper
- 01-01-21
Short and sweet
I really enjoyed this, just wish it was a little longer as I could listen to Kim talking for hrs.
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- June
- 13-04-13
Inspirational
This book was short enough to be read comfortably in one weekend. Kim reads it in the manner you would expect, to the point with no nonsense, and I think that enhances the mood of the story. She doesn't use flowery or high brow words, she doesn't try to be something she isn't. It's tragic and it's inspirational. Most people would have crumbled at a fraction of Kim's nightmares yet she troops on into adulthood with amazing stoicism. It's not cheerful but it should have you feeling that the human spirit is stronger than you think.
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- Kirsty
- 01-11-23
Heartbreaking
Absolutely loved this book, could of sat and listened to Kim for so much longer, what an amazing woman who has been through hell. So many people slate her but she is amazing to have come through her life.
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- Sarah durgan
- 02-11-22
wow...i was gripped
If kim was standing in front of me i would want to give her a huge hug as her life growing up was awful, my heart broke for her hearing her awful story, very good book, extremely interesting, i could have listened to more
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- C. Simmonds
- 11-05-22
Wanted it to be longer!
Kim's struggles growing up are often hard to hear and it's wonderful that her life turned around.. it would have been nice for us to hear more about her second marriage but its only really touched upon at the end. Great listen.
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- Silvergin
- 06-01-22
Great
Loved getting to know Kim a bit more. Well read by Kim. A survivor.
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- Matthew northey
- 03-04-21
absolutely love this book a great listen x
absolutely love this book a great listen great too listen too in bed really recommend
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- Dillan
- 30-09-20
WOW!
Kim Woodburns life story is very interesting she gave me hope and made me realise that I have so much to be thank full for .
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