Disraeli Avenue. Caroline Smailes

      

      DISRAELI AVENUE

      (Dizz-rah-eh-lee Avenue)

      Caroline Smailes

      Table of Contents

       Cover

       Title Page

Introduction

Number 9

Number 1

Number 2

Number 3

Number 4

Number 5

       Number 6

       Number 7

       Number 8

       Number 9

       Number 10

       Number 11

       Number 12

       Number 13

       Number 14

       Number 15

       Number 16

       Number 17

       Number 18

       Number 19

       Number 20

       Number 21

       Number 22

       Number 23

       Number 24

       Number 25

       Number 26

       Number 27

       Number 28

       Number 29

       Number 30

       Number 31

       Number 32

       Number 9

       About the Author

       By the same author

       Copyright

       About the Publisher

       Introduction

      There was once a girl, she was sexually abused in real life. On that very day she lost her voice and no other person asked her why.

      That girl changed, she became silent, almost invisible, she had no words.

      I wrote a novel, In Search of Adam, telling the story of a girl called Jude Williams who lived at 9 Disraeli Avenue. Jude suffered emotional and physical abuse. Readers emailed me, they could identify with Jude, they knew of the abuse that she had experienced.

      One reader told of the organisation One in Four and of how they provided a safe environment, a place to give voice. One in Four is a charity run for and by people who have experienced sexual abuse. They offer unconditional support and advice to those who need it most. Each and every donation makes a vast difference to this small charity.

      I offer Disraeli Avenue for you to read about the people who live in the thirty-two houses on the street where Jude Williams lost her words. And I dedicate this novella to the little girl who lost her voice and to all those others who have suffered sexual abuse.

      The profits from the sale of this book will go to the charity One in Four, in the hope that they will help someone begin to heal.

      Thank you, for listening.

      Caroline

       Number 9

       Bill and Jude Williams

      Green front door

      Green garage door

      Yellow car

      KON 908V

       In Search of Adam

      Two years, six months and twenty-one days before I was born, my parents moved to New Lymouth. From a block of flats that were as high as a giant. My mother’s house was brand new. It was shiny. Spick and span. There were two new estates being built in New Lymouth. The housing estate that I was to live on and another one. They each had four parallel streets and formed a perfect square on either side of the main road.

      On this Coast Road, there were ‘The Shops’. Dewstep Butchers was also New Lymouth Post Office and displayed a smiling pig’s head in the window. New Lymouth Primary School. My primary school. Was a perfect E-shaped grey building with a flat roof. Mrs Hodgson (Number 2) told