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Breaking Silence (Paperback)
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Breaking Silence is the story of a mother's journey to hell and back, and the search for justice for her twins in the face of a backlash from a society that turned its back on her.
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- The most controversial book on family violence published this year, BREAKING SILENCE was initially banned from major book chains after a 50,000 strong Facebook boycott campaign ripped across New Zealand, Australia, the United States and the UK protesting its publication.The boycott campaign had been based on false information, however, and designed to deliberately whip up public hysteria during a Coroner's Court hearing into the deaths of two twins. Now that the book has been published the critics are praising it.Breaking Silence uses the life story of mother Macsyna King as the narrative to explore the problem of intergenerational child abuse and its impact on modern society. Herself the victim of terrible abuse and abandonment as a child, King's life falls apart when her premature identical twin sons are murdered and the father is charged with the crime.Although we frequently hear about such cases, it is rare to hear from one of the key participants in her own words. Breaking Silence is the story of a mother's journey to hell and back, and the search for justice for her twins in the face of a backlash from a society that turned its back on her. It explores and sheds light not just on child abuse and violence in the home, but analyses society's attitude to women in child abuse cases.The latest forensic debates about child abuse injuries are explored, as are the social choices many of us face every day that can lead to disaster.REVIEWS: This mammoth book is a top achievement & should be a school text.. - Rachael Ford, psychiatric nurse*****The book so many maligned before it came out reveals a mother we haven't met. When I last wrote about Macsyna King, I said I didn't think I'd like her. I've changed my mind. I certainly think she outclasses the Wellington radio announcer who posted on Facebook that after receiving her advance copy of Breaking Silence, she had spat on it, wiped my ass on it, and ripped it up.Imagine your life reduced to sound bites of everything you've ever done wrong -and many things you haven't.Oh, how we've loved to hate her. But the woman who emerges from the book is a far more complex human being. There isn't the space here to list the ways in which she's been unfairly maligned. Yes, she made incredibly dumb choices. But she's smart, hard-working, big on cleanliness and loved her kids. - Tapu Misa, NZ HERALD*****I feel sad that we seem to have entered a time in society where for many it is acceptable to attempt to ban the sale of a book before knowing its contents and I wonder at the motives of those who have joined efforts to stop bookstores stocking it. Could it be we have reached a point where to make ourselves feel better we have to find someone to hate, to direct our fear and uncertainty about the future of our world towards, and that for now, at least, Macsyna King is that person? Could it be that underlying the public discussions about the need to stop the book being read is a deep-seated fear that reading it will in some way leave us all with the question of what part we as members of society played in the death of these babies? Not in the sense of Who was in the room? but in Have we really reached this level of disconnection in our communities?Ian Wishart's Breaking Silence: The Kahui Case...is not a book to ban, but one to read for whatever it can add to our understanding of child abuse. - Celia Lashlie, NZ LISTENER MAGAZINE *****We are very glad to have read it and thankful that Wishart (and King) have written it. Wishart has done the entire body politic a great deal of good. We would, accordingly, encourage everyone to read it...Breaking Silence will likely enhance Wishart's reputation considerably. - CONTRA CELSUM
| Book format | Paperback |
| Fiction/nonfiction | Non-Fiction |
| Genre | Political & Social Sciences |
| Publication date | September, 2011 |
| Pages | 295 |
| Subgenre | Family & Relationships |
| Number in series | 1 |
| Publisher | Howling at the Moon Pub. |
| Original languages | English |
| Language | English |
| Edu focus | Social Science |
| Character | Macsyna King |
| Assembled product height | 1.5 in |
| Assembled product weight | 1 lb (450 grams) |
| Bisac subject heading | Social Science, True Crime |
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- Controversial book that faced a boycott before publication.
- Tells the story of Macsyna King, a mother affected by intergenerational child abuse.
- Explores themes of child abuse and society's treatment of women in similar cases.
- Critically acclaimed despite initial backlash.
- Sheds light on societal attitudes and forensic debates surrounding child abuse.
- Provides a complex, humanizing portrait of a mother misunderstood by the public.
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