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Dancing with the Devil: Extended Edition
"Thank you for having the courage and determination to tell your story. You saved my life." - Facebook "I have read your book twice and I think it's just an amazing story. You are such a strong person and I admire you for everything you've been through". In this searingly honest memoir, Amy provides a terrifying insight into why so many women find it hard to leave when they are trapped in a violent relationship. This book will leave you speechless at the depth of one woman’s courage and enthralled by the story of how she survives and eventually triumphs over her life with the devil. Dancing with the Devil is a grueling, yet heart-warming story that will give hope to the many battered women out there who are still suffering. Dancing with the Devil was first published in 2005/06 (also under the name Living with the Devil). This Extended Edition contains the original story, ready for a new generation of readers, including a continuation of the story to allow readers the opportunity to find out what happened to Amy and her children, Kate and Jack. _______________________________________________________________________________ Amy Norman was a normal middle-class Australian schoolgirl, who dreamed of being a ballet dancer. But, at the age of sixteen, she fell in with the wrong crowd. She dropped out of school and left her loving family for Dean, a man whose life was dominated by his addition to drugs. Within three years she had had two children to him and had several traumatic abortions. She had become hooked on drugs herself and she was being beaten up every single day. Amy desperately tried to escape Dean and return to her family. But each time she was forced to return to him after he threatened to kill her, her children and her parents. Finally, after years of living in fear, Amy took the children and spent a few years traveling around Australia, changing her identity frequently to avoid being found. $1.00 from the sale of this book will be donated to UN Women.
209 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 24, 2016
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January 29, 2024
Amy, your courage to remain living with your abuser knowing there would always be another excruciatingly painful beating coming incredibly courageous. Your ability to outwit this evil gutless man by acting mentally ill and non verbal for so long is impressive. Your tenacity to continue on the run with two small children and all the challenges faced by doing so is admirable. You obviously have a strength of character second to none!
February 18, 2021
Truly inspirational
This book is truly an inspirational for women who suffer this kind of abuse. Take the Baton and run with it. You are youre bestest friend and only you can make a difference. Elayne Cherry.
This book is truly an inspirational for women who suffer this kind of abuse. Take the Baton and run with it. You are youre bestest friend and only you can make a difference. Elayne Cherry.
April 16, 2016
Reviewed by Ankita Shukla for Readers' Favorite
Dancing with the Devil: Extended Edition is a memoir of the life threatening relationship of the author, Amy C Norman. She and her two sisters were born and brought up in a nurturing family; however, during her early teenage years, she got attracted to a very wrong crowd. To impress these people, Amy drowned into the world of alcohol and drugs. She moved out of her parents' house at the age of 16 and got into a relationship with a guy named Dean, who was four years older than her.Thus began her seemingly endless and horrifying journey of insults, sexual abuse, physical and mental violence, and never-ending mind games! At the age of 18, she gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, Kate. Although she knew nothing about parenting, her maternal instincts developed, and she knew that she would protect this angel with all her heart. Dean's violence did not stop, and he did not see any problem in torturing Amy in front of Kate. Amy cried and pleaded to Dean but to no avail. The birth of her second child, Jake, triggered something inside of her, and she decided that she had to stop this inhumanity and acts of cruelty for the sake of her children. She began plotting his murder and her escape plan.
Dancing with the Devil:Extended Edition is more than the memoir of a woman reminiscing her painful and violent relationship. This is the depiction of the strength of a mother, who is willing to go to any extent to provide a respectable life for her children. Amy presents a real life example to the millions of bruised and scarred women that there is hope for them if they decide to put a stop to the madness of the men in their lives. Her story has the capacity to leave the readers feeling appalled by the violence of Dean, amazed by Amy's survival instincts, disturbed by the impotence of the legal system, and blessed by witnessing the unconditional love of her parents. After enduring enormous mental and physical torture, she came out stronger than ever, and this is the message that this book has the potential to convey to the millions of people, who are in the similar circumstances.
Dancing with the Devil: Extended Edition is a memoir of the life threatening relationship of the author, Amy C Norman. She and her two sisters were born and brought up in a nurturing family; however, during her early teenage years, she got attracted to a very wrong crowd. To impress these people, Amy drowned into the world of alcohol and drugs. She moved out of her parents' house at the age of 16 and got into a relationship with a guy named Dean, who was four years older than her.Thus began her seemingly endless and horrifying journey of insults, sexual abuse, physical and mental violence, and never-ending mind games! At the age of 18, she gave birth to a beautiful baby girl, Kate. Although she knew nothing about parenting, her maternal instincts developed, and she knew that she would protect this angel with all her heart. Dean's violence did not stop, and he did not see any problem in torturing Amy in front of Kate. Amy cried and pleaded to Dean but to no avail. The birth of her second child, Jake, triggered something inside of her, and she decided that she had to stop this inhumanity and acts of cruelty for the sake of her children. She began plotting his murder and her escape plan.
Dancing with the Devil:Extended Edition is more than the memoir of a woman reminiscing her painful and violent relationship. This is the depiction of the strength of a mother, who is willing to go to any extent to provide a respectable life for her children. Amy presents a real life example to the millions of bruised and scarred women that there is hope for them if they decide to put a stop to the madness of the men in their lives. Her story has the capacity to leave the readers feeling appalled by the violence of Dean, amazed by Amy's survival instincts, disturbed by the impotence of the legal system, and blessed by witnessing the unconditional love of her parents. After enduring enormous mental and physical torture, she came out stronger than ever, and this is the message that this book has the potential to convey to the millions of people, who are in the similar circumstances.
November 19, 2016
Emotional and Triumphant
Norman wrote her story and I guess this is a rewrite of the original. Having never read the original, I read this one with tears in my eyes and tissues on my lap. I think it was very poignant and heartbreaking for me since I also am a survivor of DV and I also wrote my own story, but fictionalized it. It was very powerful for Norman to write of her abuse, and finally escape. The escape seemed to be part of what shows her strength, for her and her children, and how her life may have never been the same, or even her own. I am amazed by her tenacity for taking care of herself and her children. Norman is an amazing woman and I'm glad to share in her story. Unfortunately, no one really knows what happens behind closed doors, and this is another example of living in the horror that one may call home.
Norman wrote her story and I guess this is a rewrite of the original. Having never read the original, I read this one with tears in my eyes and tissues on my lap. I think it was very poignant and heartbreaking for me since I also am a survivor of DV and I also wrote my own story, but fictionalized it. It was very powerful for Norman to write of her abuse, and finally escape. The escape seemed to be part of what shows her strength, for her and her children, and how her life may have never been the same, or even her own. I am amazed by her tenacity for taking care of herself and her children. Norman is an amazing woman and I'm glad to share in her story. Unfortunately, no one really knows what happens behind closed doors, and this is another example of living in the horror that one may call home.
July 8, 2016
Harrowing experience
It really makes one think of where they are at in life compared to her experience when one is in a unhappy relationship, if not marriage. For myself, i can see myself in the emotional abuse, but then again, it makes me think if I'm lying to myself. I had two instances of abuse happen, one of which I ended up hospitalized and I took him back! This would be a book for a person who is in a domestic abuse situation, would make them think about things.
It really makes one think of where they are at in life compared to her experience when one is in a unhappy relationship, if not marriage. For myself, i can see myself in the emotional abuse, but then again, it makes me think if I'm lying to myself. I had two instances of abuse happen, one of which I ended up hospitalized and I took him back! This would be a book for a person who is in a domestic abuse situation, would make them think about things.
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