Eighteen Seconds

'Upsetting, uplifting and inspiring' * John Marrs *
'Authentic, unflinching and moving. Written with compassion and humanity and a great deal of love' * S. E. Lynes *
'A powerful memoir making sense of a complicated childhood' * Madeleine Black *
'Haunting, brave and brilliant' * Gill Paul *
'A heart-breaking, heart-warming story - what courage to tell it, and tell it so well' * Liz Nugent *
'I loved every word of this haunting memoir' * Amanda Prowse *
'Exquisitely told, achingly painful, searingly honest and yet hopeful, and filled with light and love' * Liz Fenwick *
'Having read some of Louise's books before, I can now see where bits of her life have been threaded into her stories. But it's not a thread of darkness; rather it's a thread of hope, and daffodil yellow in colour. And that's what we have in Eighteen Seconds. Against the darkness, is the light of hope and freedom shining through. A determination not to be defined by the horrific neglect and abuse that Louise and her siblings endured. There were times that this book made me so angry with everything that Louise has gone through. But I was left with the overriding bond and love that Louise has with her sisters and brother.' * Joy Kluver, author of Last Seen, Broken Girls, Left for Dead *
'Brave, powerful, horrifying and hopeful. Louise Beech tells her story with humour and heart despite enduring the most difficult of times.' * Chris Whitaker, bestselling author of Tall Oaks *