Powerful Debut Novel Entitled LITTLE CHILD By Piara Strainge Is Published
Online, July 27, 2011 (Newswire.com) - About the Book:
Lost and overcome, striving to be the best they can be, the pressure of expectation weighs heavily. Both are running - Maggie from the power she's been entrusted with by her father's company and all that it brings; Emily from her mother's relentless abuse and keeping up the facade that her home life is normal. As Emily and her father make plans to escape, Maggie finds herself embroiled in a tangled web of lies, deceit and corruption, which will eventually lead to the ultimate betrayal. Both mother and daughter will be pushed to the brink of despair through events out of their control, but only one will claw her way back again.
Lurking on every corner - survival, power, instinct - and laced with gripping plot on plot, Little Child effortlessly combines a gritty underworld with raw, delicate emotion.
About the Author:
Piara Strainge lives in Fleet in Hampshire and has spent the last 11 years travelling all over the world as she works for an Adventure tour operator in Farnborough. Writing is her first passion, closely followed by travel. Piara has experienced and witnessed emotional and mental abuse and it weaves itself through her family, passed on from one generation to the next. The different forms of abuse are widely acknowledged in the family and her generation is working hard to stop the cycle as they create a new generation.
Excerpt from the book:
"She slammed her into the dining room table and watched as she toppled over, her flailing arm taking a chair with her. Emily's screams pierced her anguished thoughts. She looked at the glass in her hand and then at her daughter, a crumpled heap on the floor. She tried to squeeze the glass. She wanted it to break. It was too much, it was all too much. The threats. The scandal. The suspense. Losing control, release, was the only thing she had left. She slumped down into the nearest chair and reached for the bottle of Scotch.
Emily watched silently as her mother poured yet another glass. This was the way it was, the drinking and the abuse, day in, day out. Emily felt the tears stinging her eyes as her mother got up and stumbled out of the room, the whisky bottle in one hand, the glass in the other. For a long time afterwards she didn't move. Her heart bled. Every ordeal leaving a deeper scar."
A copy of this book can be ordered from Chipmunka Publishing at:
http://chipmunkapublishing.co.uk/shop/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=1945
and from Amazon.co.uk at:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Little-Child-Piara-Strainge/dp/1849915229/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1311495356&sr=8-1
Media Contact:
Publisher:
Chipmunka Publishing
Quay House
2 Admirals Way
Marsh Wall
London, England E14 9XG
Contact: info@chipmunkapublishing.com