I Know What You Are

Name: I Know What You Are
Brand: Harper UK
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3 (3 reviews)
Author: Taylor Edison
ISBN: 9780008148034

Author: Taylor Edison, Jane Smith

Narrator: Jessica Ball

Unabridged: 5 hr 28 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperCollins

Published: 02/09/2017

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography, Family & Relationships, Abuse, True Crime, Organized Crime

Synopsis

The moving true story of a little girl with Asperger syndrome, controlled and abused by the one person she called her friend. Taylor had always struggled to make friends – she felt ‘different’. Taylor never knew her father and her mother wasn’t around much. She just didn’t understand people, and was alone and scared most of the time. That was until, aged just 11, an older married man called Tom befriended her. She loved having someone who would talk to her, listen to her, a protector. But when he moved away a few months later she was easy prey to the gang of drug dealers and petty criminals who groomed and abused her, using her as a form of currency to appease their debtors and amuse their friends. Increasingly isolated and desperate, it began to look as though the pattern of Taylor's life had been set – until she started to fight back, determined to build a safe future for herself, however long it took.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Amy on October 23, 2018

It is hard to rate an autobiography...how can you rate someone’s experience?? You can’t. First, let me say, I absolutely admire Taylor for putting herself out there and writing this book to tell her story. She is incredibly brave! My rating in no way reflects what she went through and endured. It is......more

Goodreads review by Marieke on December 03, 2021

I do want to say: "Thank you Taylor for sharing your story. Incredibly brave of you." Unfortunately I found this book difficult to read. Not because of the language, but the constant repeating.......more

Goodreads review by Selina on October 12, 2022

This book doesn’t hold back on the descriptions and it’s really important that this kind of story is out there. However, as a story it was disjointed in places.......more

Goodreads review by Nancy on July 30, 2017

Anyone who abuses a child, in my humble opinion, deserves a fate much worse than death. But to willing abuse a child who has any type of needs is even lower than low. How could the number of men who hurt this girl and used her not even once realize that she couldn't grasp everything that was happeni......more

Goodreads review by Brenda on July 14, 2023

This was a heartbreaking story about a little girl who had asked burgers, and her and her mother was not very compassionate. She let her daughter just run on her own, and her daughter had no upbringing. So the little girl ended up being miss treated, and not knowing that she was being being miss tre......more