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Review
   A Broken Childhood II: Forgiveness
   by
   Lydia Ola Taiwo
   Nightmares normally end when we
awaken. But what if your waking hours
   actually were your nightmare? In
her first book, `A Broken Childhood',
   Lydia Taiwo opened her heart and
showed us how she survived horrific
   abuse as a child.
   In ‘A Broken Childhood:
Forgiveness’, Lydia’s story
   continues when her parents finally
decide to take her back to Nigeria.
   However any hopes that life will
improve are swiftly dashed by her
   mother. Alone in a strange country,
she is determined to survive, but
   when she finally escapes her
parents clutches, Lydia will find that
   the hardest battle of all is
learning how to come to terms with the
   past.
   Gripping in its intimate narrative,
the book is unnervingly direct but
   retains a quiet, hopeful sparkle
and optimism that carries us along.
   In it, Lydia reflects on her past
but it is her ability to forgive
   that truly inspires. I’m not sure
many readers faced with the
   dev

A Broken Childhood
by Lydia Ola Taiwo
Lydia Ola Taiwo is a survivor – a survivor of physical, mental and
emotional abuse at the hands of those who should have loved and protected her.
A Broken Childhood is the gut-wrenching story of Lydia’s childhood, and
chapter after chapter describes what can only be called, the soul of a truly
evil woman: her mother.
Lydia was a child that never experienced a hug, a mother’s kiss, a
welcoming embrace. There was no one to dry her tears, allay her fears, or hold
her hand. She was a child who grew up watching other children take for granted
the love and care she never had.
Thrown on the floor, her teeth broken, her body cut and scarred from the
wire used to whip her, Lydia knew anger, depression, even thoughts of suicide.
But within her, she found a glimmer of strength, an inner resolve to pull her
through the darkness. Incredibly, she came to forgive her parents and now her
life has become a light for others to follow.
“Sorrow may last the night but joy comes in the m

The latest book from author Mingmei Yip takes
the reader on an epic journey — both emotional and geographically. The Nine Fold Heaven is the story of a young Chinese woman,
Camilla who is taken from an orphanage at the age of four, and forced to work
for one of the worst gangs in Shanghai. Not that she has a bad life with them.
In exchange for her various “services” to the gang, from sexual favors to singing
entertainment to assassinations, she is well taken care of, as least in
material objects. Her emotional life however, has been completely deprived and
suffocated.
Camilla’s
emotions refused to be suppressed, and love finds a way through the darkness.
After taking a lover she gives birth to a son, and the small seed of emotion,
feelings and love that had sprouted were now in full bloom. She escapes her
“gilded cage” only to return and fight for her child.
The
journey she takes will leave the reader breathless, in tears, and cheering her
on. Camilla will do whatever is necessary to free her child from the

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