SHAME, GUILT, AND SURVIVING MARTIN BRYANT: One Woman's Journey from Terror to Joy

Martin Bryant will always be connected to a great deal of misery, torment and death. But it didn’t start on April 28, 1996, the day he murdered thirty-five people in what became known as the Port Arthur Massacre, in Tasmania, Australia.

This book isn’t just about Martin Bryant. It is one woman’s story of how child abuse, trauma and dysfunctional parents made her the perfect candidate for Martin Bryant’s unwanted attention, long before the massacre of 1996. Just how did the devastating childh...