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The Bad Room

Held Captive and Abused by My Evil Carer. A True Story of Survival.

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The Bad Room

By: Jade Kelly
Narrated by: Caro Clarke
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About this listen

After years of physical and mental abuse, Jade thought her kindly foster mother would be the answer to her prayers. She was wrong … this is her staggering true story.

‘This must be what prison is like,’ I thought as another hour crawled by. In fact, prison would be better … at least you knew your sentence. You could tick off the days until you got out. In the Bad Room we had no idea how long we’d serve.

After years of constant abuse, Jade thought her foster mother Linda Black would be the answer to her prayers. Loving and nurturing, she offered ten-year-old Jade a life free of fear.

But once the regular social-worker checks stopped, Linda turned and over the next six years Jade and three other girls were kept prisoner in a bedroom they called the ‘bad room’.

Shut away for 16 hours at a time, they were starved, violently beaten, forbidden from speaking or using the toilet and routinely humiliated. Jade was left feeling broken and suicidal.

This is the powerful true story of how one woman banished the ghosts of her past by taking dramatic action to protect the life of every vulnerable child in care.

©2020 Jade Kelly (P)2020 HarperCollins Publishers Limited Abuse Adventurers, Explorers & Survival Child Abuse Dysfunctional Families Dysfunctional Relationships Parenting & Families Relationships Emotionally Gripping Heartfelt

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Binge listened to this. What an inspirational strong lady you are. Well done for sharing your story and coming out a stronger person 🙌🏻

Great (but also shocking) and inspirational read

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I'm glad you are happy in your life and that you told your story. you should be proud

well done to you and your strength.

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I work with children who are traumatised and people need to read books like this to understand what happens to them.

loved it.

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Well written and narrated, and easy to follow which is important for me. Jade is an inspiration.

Amazing story

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I could not stop listening. I felt so frustrated that you were not listened to, even though you were so obviously abused. Infuriating really. Relating to this in a way - my abuser committed suicide and the relief that I experienced when learning of his death was unbelievably comforting, the thought of knowing it was over gave me my life back. Well done for picking up the pieces, you can be very proud of yourself. Well done! 💕🌷🌷🌷💕

Brilliant and heartbreaking 💔

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