Bøger af Kat Ward

A true account of Kats battle with both physical and mental ill health and then a shock diagnosis of Bowel Cancer. Sometimes funny, sometimes sad, at other times utterly pathetic, Kat pulls no punches as she describes everything from symptoms through foul tests and treatments up to the potentially life-saving operation itself and beyond, where complications seemed never-ending. Language is not always polite either, so not for the easily offended! The book is not recommended for those going through similar. It is likely to scare them shitless for a start! Readers must remember, Kat Ward is renowned for Bad Luck, Bad Choices and Bad Coping Mechanisms. At the very least, the book may send someone to the GP to get an early test.

Volume 6 of the autobiographical series originally begun as a healing tool. In fact, Kat continues to heal whilst writing of her adult life even though she had been unaware that she needed to do so. Severely damaged from early childhood and throughout her formative years, Keri had ended up in local authority care, from where she should have been safe at last. This proved not to be the case at all. Already hurt beyond repair, Keri moved from pillar to post and from one disaster to another. In this sixth volume, Keri (now Karin) moves in with her new husband and his family. Of course, things can never be simple for someone who just does not know how to be a mother, a wife, even a fully-rounded person. In next to no time, Karin finds herself homeless, childless and without any kind of safety net. It is beginning to appear as if every single thing Mother had predicted for Karin's future will come true ... Now in her late fifties and living on the North Wales/English border along with her multiple pets and with three grown-up sons visiting regularly, Kat feels she has finally come full circle and is now actually beginning to live and experience life in a more usual frame. Sometimes, she describes herself as a writer.

A continuation of Keri's troubled life after leaving Garfield House in Norfolk. This sequel continues from exactly where the first book stopped. Keri finds herself transported halfway across the country to a lock-up institution; a Home Office Approved School named Duncroft. Once again, despite seeing a resident psychiatrist regularly, Keri is not believed when she relates what has happened to her. Although Duncroft itself is 'safe', if strict, there is a regular visitor who is far from safe. Easily swayed, as always naive, Keri is drawn into further abuse, which, due to excitement about their celebrity visitor, neither she nor the other girls recognise for what it is. The book does mention the celebrity abuser, but only in passing and only by using the initials of his name.

Volume Two of Kat Ward's biography about her life as a child. In this book, Keri is expelled from school, put into the care of the local authority and runs away from the children's home -- more than once.

Part five of the candid autobiographical account of a survivor of horrific abuse through childhood and the impact it had throughout the teenage years.

A continuation of the candid account of the life of one survivor of horrific child abuse. Having been set up to fail, it is no surprise that Keri cannot cope with the real world. She longs for the safety of institutional-style living whilst being unaware of that need consciously. Although she's met many people, made some friends, proved to be competent in the work environment, Keri absolutely cannot judge character, is naive in the extreme and certain to get into deeper and deeper trouble ...

Kat Ward was the first victim to speak out about the abuse she suffered at the hands of Jimmy Savile. Her book is a unique, harrowing and immensely moving perspective on one of the biggest news stories of the last decade.