The Little Prisoner

From the age of four, Jane Elliott was forced to carry a terrible secret…

Dominated, bullied and sexually abused by her stepfather for 17 years, The Little Prisoner is a devastating true story of one girl’s struggle from freedom.

Held as a prisoner, subject to horrendous emotional and physical abuse, it wasn’t until Jane was 21 that she managed to escape. But it took another five years of living in hiding before she felt able to go to the police.

Nearly every witness who could have attested to the evil and violent behaviours of her stepfather was too frightened to come forward. Would the judge and jury believe Jane and her small band of brave supporters?

The Little Prisoner is the shocking, astonishing and ultimately uplifting true story of one woman’s shattering twenty-year ordeal; and how she triumphed over an evil and violet human monster when honesty and bravery were her only weapons. A heart-rending and inspirational tale of courage and survival.

• No 1 Sunday Times bestseller when it was published in Hardback. It has now sold more than half a million copies.

• Ranked 47th in the Guardian Hot 100 for 2005.

• A story which is both inspiring, uplifting and horrifying. As powerful as its predecessors: A Child Called It and The Kid, such books have real staying-power on the bestseller charts.

• Crafted by the same ghostwriter as The Kid, the book is a true page-turner: heartrending, dramatic, and powerful

• Our mission is for this moving piece of personal history to help all victims find a voice – to speak out against the evil which infects untold ordinary lives.

Competition: A Child Called It; The Kid; Please Daddy No; Mummy’s Little Girl; Girl A; Secret Slave; Abandoned; Ugly; A Piece of Cake; Just A Child; Helpless; The Forgotten Child; Room. Dave Pelzer; Andrew Crofts; Torey Hayden; Cathy Glass; Casey Watson; Toni Maguire