The events of this story are true. It begins when the author was 11 and first learnt that she had been adopted. At 19, she walked out on a wonderful family, with a husband who loved her deeply and gave her three beautiful babies. She turned her her back on them and climbed on a train to London to find her birth mother. Being innocent, she had no idea that she would soon be homeless and sleeping on park benches in Hyde Park and mixing with drug addicts, eventually working for the Maltese Mafia, who employed her as a striptease dancer in their clubs in Soho. She eventually lived with one of these Mafia men who always carried a gun and she was slowly groomed into that life. She was not allowed to go to work without being followed or watched by this violent man, although she was besotted by him. He would beat her or slap her for no reason and still she stayed. She finally escaped the violence by walking the streets yet again with nothing except the clothes she wore. Terrified, she picked up men for sex to earn money and finally met a man whom she married and who took her back to her hometown. She had witnessed violence and murder and endured violence herself, but now she is in her golden years. She has gone through four husbands, two of whom tried to murder her and almost killed her, but she can now put the truth out there for young women who are thinking of running away to London, believing the streets are paved with gold. She can assure them that they are not. Her experiences were heartbreaking, violent and soul-destroying, but she is still here to tell her story...A childhood that could hardly be remembered, teenage years that were unforgettable, then came the unknown: fear, physical and mental abuse, pain, terror and beatings, drug abuse and going yet again into the unknown, resulting in rescue and contentment and peace... No one should travel the path I took...This book is a must-read and should be given to any young person thinking of doing what I did... JUST DON'T, as only heartbreak will follow. It followed me and still does. That's why I remain BROKEN.
WOUNDS THAT NEVER HEAL’BROKEN’by Hazel Longley.this is the happiest day of my life.my book is out though it has taken me one year and many tears to bring me to this end.wonderful and magical day for ........
Nottinghamshire Live shared an article featuring my book, Wounds That Never Heal… ‘Broken’. The article presents insight into the book and narrates my life story. Read more here.
I’ve been interviewed by my local newspaper…..nottingham post.i am in the online newspaper.very proud.
Hello everyone.im Hazel and since first lockdown,I decided to write but my life which was published today.Austin Macauley have done me proud just by putting up with me.it took me one year to write w ........
My book has took off quite well.i have done lots of signing and already done an interview for nottingham post live and this Thursday at 1.15pm a live telephone interview on BBC radio nottingham for ........
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