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Unbeaten

The Story of My Brutal Childhood

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Unbeaten

By: Kim Woodburn
Narrated by: Kim Woodburn
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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.

©2006 Kim Woodburn (P)2006 Hodder and Stoughton Audiobooks Entertainment & Celebrities Celebrity Inspiring Heartfelt Thought-Provoking

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heartbreaking but she got everything she deserved eventually. I'm so glad she got her happy ending. 😊

Happy ending

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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

Loved her story

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I love Kim’s voice anyway so really enjoyed her reading. Very shocked and quite angered at times to hear of the difficult experiences she had as a youngster, but she recounts these very succinctly, honestly and gracefully. It was very moving and often inspiring. Would have liked to have heard more in fact.

Tear jerker!

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Easy to listen to. Unbelievably horrible life story with a happy ending, I had no idea she was from my home town of Portsmouth which made it all the more interesting.

Unbelievable

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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

wow...i was gripped

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Decided to listen to this after Kim’s death and the comments about her. It is understandable that she took no messing!

What a survivor

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Totally enjoyed this book, so very sad poor Kim really suffered, but I am pleased she had a happy life at the end of her life.

so very sad life.

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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.

Inspirational

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absolutely love this book a great listen great too listen too in bed really recommend
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absolutely love this book a great listen x

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Kim's life was clearly one of exceptional tragedy, loss and maltreatment. The abuse she suffered, no one should have to go through and the most difficult part I felt was when she had spoken about giving birth to her baby alone in her home and her baby dying, and the aftermath of this for her.

No parent should have to go through this, but that kind of difficulty is beyond belief. Her tone throughout while she speaks the words that are ever so important in her history yet words she may never want to utter again, is incredibly strong and clear. She has evidently learned throughout her life how and when to regulate her emotions even considering the life she's had and how she could have turned out from these ordeals.

I wish the book would have been longer, as I enjoyed listening to the story and her and this is why I have given the overall score 4 stars instead of 5 as I would want more personally.

Harrowing Yet Inspiring

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