BR - Destroyed


Destroyed By Jayne Sterne



Paperback: 310 pages Publisher: Headline Review (20 Mar 2008)
Genre: Non Fiction/ Biography   Source: Library

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My thoughts - Jayne stern is the age of merely eight when her family return back to England from Ireland due to all the chaos. Like a lot of readers out there, many will agree with me when I say Graham is a bully and a sick bastard. 


Jayne's strength always seems to amaze me. How  can a child face so much and still be willing to be there for others, and then even want to believe in love is beyond me. It takes a lot of strength and determination to do what she did, that's for sure. To survive what she had to live through and then have the strength to write this book is so admirable. The one thing that stood out to me was Jayne's and Stuarts relationship. Their bond was a beautiful one.

Stuart loves to fight and ever has since they lived in Ireland and he had to fend for himself it has become almost an addiction. At times I found myself so moved because their bond was such a similar one to the one that I share with my own brother. Jayne has lost so much in life, yet she willed herself on, wrote a novel about her life. That alone takes so much courage to do, and for many young girls and women who are going through or have been through a similar situation. I can imagine this book being very inspirational for them.


Stuart is probably one of my most favourite characters and that is why it angered yet pained me so much as I could only watch him spiral into this bottom-pit of self- destruction. His past, his life was also a tough one. It seems that it was only a matter of time until it caught back up with him. Then there were the times when things seemed so promising that that I hoped so hard that everything was going to be okay now. Deep down though maybe a part of me knew it was too good to be true, and since when is real life ever fair?


There was one thing good in Jayne's life apart from her brother. Simon. It makes me smile just to think of him because he brings such happiness into Jayne's life. We watch as Jayne goes through these destructive relationships but when Simon is introduced all that changes for the better. Simon is exactly what Jayne needs and he is someone who will be a constant pillar of great support. He is someone who she can completely depend on and just as it is for the reader, for Jayne that is such a lovely relief.


The ending? WOW: Just so horrifying. She describes it so vividly and with so much pain that you want to close the book right then and there because you can see it coming. Trust me; it’s not pretty in the slightest. After that ending I wonder how Jayne is so freaking strong, how she has managed to cope when people break and loose grip on reality because of much less. I respect this woman so much for all she has endured and overcome: an amazing novel that must be real by all.


Thank you Jayne


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