He was knighted in the 2018 for his services to literature and charity. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL) in 2004. In 2003, he was advanced to an Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE). In 1999 this work was publicly recognised when he and his wife were invested a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to youth. They have three farms in Devon, Wales and Gloucestershire, open to inner city school children who come to stay and work with the animals. He left teaching after ten years in order to set up 'Farms for City Children' with his wife. After a brief and unsuccessful spell in the army, he took up teaching and started to write. Born in St Albans, Hertfordshire, in 1943, he was evacuated to Cumberland during the last years of the Second World War, then returned to London, moving later to Essex. He also writes his own screenplays and libretti for opera. A work of courage, hope, and love.Sir Michael Andrew Morpurgo, OBE, FRSL is the author of many books for children, five of which have been made into films. The Long Road Home is more than riveting fiction. A work of daring and compassion, a tale of healing that will shock and touch and move you to your very soul, it exposes the terror of child abuse, and opens the doors on a subject that affects us all.
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With profound insight, Danielle Steel has created a vivid portrait of an abused child’s broken world, and the courage necessary to face it and free herself from the past. When Gabriella faces what was done to her, and why, she herself is free at last. On a pilgrimage destined to bring her face-to-face with those who sought to destroy her in her early life, she finds forgiveness, freedom from guilt, and healing from abuse. Brought to the edge of despair, physically attacked beyond recognition and belief, haunted by abuse in her present and her past, she nonetheless manages to find hope again, and the courage to face the past. But just when she thinks she is beyond hurt, Gabriella is once again betrayed by someone she trusts. There she seeks healing and escape through her writing again, this time as an adult, and her life as a writer begins.
But their relationship leads to tragedy as Joe must choose between the priesthood and Gabriella, and life in the real world where he fears he does not belong, and cannot cope.Įxiled and disgraced, and nearly destroyed, Gabriella struggles to survive on her own in New York. With Gabriella, Joe takes the first steps toward healing.
Like Gabriella, Joe is haunted by the pain of his childhood, consumed by guilt over a family tragedy, for which he blames himself. And friendship grows dangerously into love. Then a young priest comes into her life.įather Joe Connors never questioned his vocation until Gabriella entered the confessional and shared her soul. Amid the quiet safety and hushed rituals of the nuns, Gabriella grows into womanhood in a safe, peaceful world. There, Gabriella’s battered body and soul begin to mend.
And when her parents’ marriage collapses, Gabriella is given her first reprieve, as her father disappears, and then her mother abandons her to a convent. Only writing can dull the pain of her lonely world. Gabriella knows that, try as she might, there is no safe place for her to hide.Įven as a child, her only escape is through the stories she writes. Her parents’ aristocratic world is no safeguard against the abuse that knows no boundaries, respects no person, no economic lines. Her world is a confusing blend of terror, betrayal, and pain. Gabriella already knows to hide her bruises, certain she is to blame for her mother’s rage–and her father’s failure to protect her.
Later, she waits for the click, click, click of her mother’s high heels, the angry words, and the pain that will follow. At seven, she knows she is an intruder in her parents’ party, in her parents’ life. Bestselling novelist Danielle Steel takes us on a harrowing journey into the heart of America’s hidden shame in a novel that explores the power of forgiveness, the dark side of childhood, and one woman’s unbreakable spirit.įrom her secret perch at the top of the stairs, Gabriella Harrison watches the guests arrive at her parents’ lavish Manhattan townhouse.
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