A Stolen Childhood: A dark past, a terrible secret, a girl without a future
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A Stolen Childhood: A dark past, a terrible secret, a girl without a future
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Narrated by:
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Kate Lock
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Casey Watson
About this listen
Bestselling author and teacher Casey Watson shares the horrifying true story of Kiera Bentley, a 12-year-old girl with a deeply shocking secret she’s too young to even understand.
When Casey first meets Kiera, a small slight girl who’s just lashed out at a fellow pupil in assembly, she immediately senses something’s wrong. Something in Kiera’s eyes alerts Casey that this is an “old head on young shoulders”, and with Kiera’s constant tiredness and self-soothing habit of pulling her hair out, she follows her instinct and takes Kiera under her wing.
At first the answer seems simple enough; Kiera’s parents aren’t together and they don’t get on, which makes life hard for Kiera as she’s so close to her dad. But as the weeks roll on, Casey begins to understand that there’s something much darker going on behind closed doors. And when she finally learns the truth, she’s terrified she won’t be able to save Kiera from it.
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- Anonymous User
- 06-04-19
Great story very shocking
Great book I dont know how you was so patient with Mr Hunt but well done the end made me giggle.
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- Ingrid
- 01-11-18
From a teachers view
I am wondering why Casey Watson use Kate Lock as a narrator. She read in so high fistel it's unpleasant to listen to her. It destroy her books
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- danielle martin
- 05-01-16
nice book... the narrating was annoying
nice book...would not listen to this narrater again ..she was good and attentive to the story but her narrating was anjoying
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- erin
- 12-12-15
Terrible voices
The story was ok. The narrators various voices were painful to the ears at times. I wanted to give up but as I'd paid for this I persevered. I won't be buying a book read by this narrator again.
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- Richard Wray
- 29-11-17
Dreadful book
The woman's voice makes me cringe, I stopped listening after chapter 3, I wish I could have my money back, this woman's God awful voice should come with a warning.
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- Puppy crazy
- 23-11-22
Couldn’t stand the voices.
Probably a good book but the audio voices hurt your ears. Had to turn it off. Terrible accents that are so irritating.
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- Sunflower Bear
- 21-08-20
The worst narrator I have ever heard
It is a good, gripping book. But the narrator is the worst I have ever heard, and I have listened to over 100 audibooks. She makes the book almost unlistenable and it’s a real test of will and concentration to try to follow the story in spite of her. She does the strangest accents and impressions and voices. And her intonation is almost as if she were either a baby, or talking to a baby.
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- tamsin
- 08-01-23
Awful narrator
This performance ruined the book to the point I couldn’t listen to the actual story
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- Anne Dudley
- 30-09-24
A stolen Childhood
I usually like to listen to Casey's account of her live as a carer/teacher but this one seemed to take age's getting started. Although it was a shock to find that both parents were abusing Tia in different ways I couldn't understand why Casey hadn't picked up about what the mother was subjecting her daughter through, especially when she came out with some of the things she said after her falling asleep on the boys lap.
I always like listening to the narrator & d all the different accents she does.
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- Toby
- 13-06-16
Poor narrator
Tried my hardest to listen to this book but had to stop because of the narration. Very strange and irritating style, really bad attempts at accents and voice tone was painful to listen to. Shame
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