Mirage of Identity

by Jill Thrussell

Mirage of Identity
Illusion, confusion, victimisation, protection, direction, succession.
A young girl growing up without the safety net of a family or parents from the age of two, a broken childhood, heroin addict parents and siblings scattered all over the world. This is the story of one woman’s struggle to overcome the trials and tribulations of growing up with no family protection and care. Having to overcome battles such as domestic violence and other horrors, learn of one woman’s battle to retain her innocence, liberate herself and overcome the obstacles of disturbing and difficult childhood.
Read about the rare strange neurological disorder that paralyzed her for six months at the age of just 22 years old and how she was misdiagnosed and almost died. Which meant she could not touch or be near anything as it felt like a brick against her skin. Guillaine Barre Syndrome affects only one in 100,000 people.
Find out how she overcame these traumatic experiences, turned her life around and then went on to excel in education. As an educated professional she has worked with several internationally renowned organisations. Learn how she coped with the loneliness of having no family and about her quest to seek love, family, an identity and acceptance, from other sources.
Read this book to understand and equip yourself so you can live a life free from unnecessary pain, so that you too can realise your potential. Unlike many such pieces, this book has actually been written by the author who endured and experienced this story first hand. Experience
 A beautifully written novel
 A true story
 A manual full of valuable life lessons
 An inspirational and motivational narration
All Royalties from this book will fund the charity work of Uhuru Africa
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Book Review
‘Maybe it takes someone who has lived and grown up without a family to teach the world, the compassion to love our human family properly. A very inspiring, beautifully written book’ – Lucy

Copyright @ Jill Thrussell 2011

173 pages, Paperback

First published September 22, 2011

About the author

Jill Thrussell is a author, poet, writer and upcoming director. She has written books, scripts, poetry, songs and movies and is actively working on projects. She had been writing since the age of 13 when she wrote her first television program for a national channel. She deviated from her writing career for a number of years due to family responsibilities and has returned to it in recent years.

Reviews

[Teresa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Story is ispiring to abuse surivors like myself it gives me hope. it talks about the emotions felt by an outcast of a family and the feelings of abandonment she felt but how she fought that and though she still has some effects from her child hood she has overcome so much. She did not allow herself to below a statistic and lose hope. She fought for herself and kept going. She used her intelligence though at times in not so many positive ways she used them not to a detrement to her future. She is a SURVIVOR and she overcame her circumstances that was handed to her well. It gives me hope to read something from a writer like this. Thanks. Well written.

[Lola · Rating 2 out of 5]

I received this book in the Good Reads drawing. Thank you! The story of a 2 yr. old taken from her heroin addicted parents & placed in children's homes, & finally adopted by a family where she never felt she fit in. She acted out so she could be returned to a children's home & thereby get out of the family. She became a mother of a daughter. Her life was about trying to become part of a family somehow. I didn't see that she ever got that. Misused & abused by men she didn't like men much. She became a Christian & educated woman & continued her search to be a wife, mother, & part of a family.

[Melanie Britt · Rating 2 out of 5]

An interesting story about the life of someone who grew up without a family and how this affected her. How she managed to get herself through education and look after her daughter. God helped her make sense of life.