Bent Not Broken

Bent Not Broken
Lauren Roche
Paperback
h198 x 126mm - 264pg
10 Oct 2001 UK
9781903506028
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Lauren had a turbulent childhood and adolescence. In some ways it is a horrific story: her parents' marriage break-up, sexual abuse as a child in Australia, her mother's drug addiction and eventual suicide, a rebellious adolescence in Wellington, running away, stowing away, being raped by three men, and on to prostitution, depression, suicide attempts and drug use on her own account. After a number of dead end jobs, Lauren worked as a striper and then became a prostitute. She returned to high school as an adult student and eventually undertook medical studies and qualified as a general practitioner. Medical training is renowned as being rigourous and difficult. Lauren made it with not only her difficult past to reconcile, but also the problems of a single mother with a child with learning difficulties.
"A razor's-edge memoir of her turbulent past ... exquisite storytelling -- captured with words that take us right there beside here ..."
Dr Lauren Roche is now nearly forty. After qualifying as a G.P she worked in an A & E department. Currently she is employed part time in sexual health and at a family planning clinic. She regularly gives lectures in prisons and to voluntary organisations.
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ISBN-13: 9781903506028
Published: 10 Oct 2001
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Zymurgy Publishing
Publisher: Zymurgy Publishing
Format: Paperback
Height: 198mm
Width: 126mm
Pages: 264
Dewey: 306.87

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