Searching for Daddy

by Christine Joanna Hart

Christine's childhood was desperately unhappy. She was given up for adoption by her mother when she was still a baby and placed in an orphanage. That was where her adoptive parents found her. But adoption was not a happy ending, it was just the start of a new nightmare for little Christine. Christine's new parents were incredibly strict and very religious, but that didn't stop her new mother from cruelly neglecting her or her new father from sexually abusing her. When Christine was just 10 years old, her parents declared they had had enough and sent her back to the orphanage. It was this act of dreadful betrayal that pushed her to breaking point. Feeling totally unloveable and abandoned, Christine began a desperate quest for the real father she had never known, the only parent she felt had never let her down. The orphanage looked in her records and told her that her father was a criminal and that was why her mother had given her up. From there a twisted path took her to the eventual belief that Ian Brady, the notorious Moors Murderer, was her father. It took years of heartbreak and therapy for Christine to free herself not just from the grip of a serial killer but also from the horror of her past. Now finally reunited with her real father she has happily completed her quest.

Genres: Biography Memoir, Nonfiction

304 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 2008

About the author

I am a Sunday Times Best-selling Author. I am a Private Investigator. As an ex-child abuse victim, I am passionate about helping rape victims. I love those kind enough to give me reviews. I have a radio show with Revolution Radio and you can find my You Tube under my name - Christine Hart - Private Eye or Christine Joanna Hart or Chrissie Jo Hart likewise my facebook! Come join me!

I am part of a BBC documentary out next year. 2023.

Reviews

[Istvan Tomor · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wow! What an amazing read! I got completely carried away…
Searching for Daddy is a girl and then a grown up woman’s quest for her roots, a sense of belonging and a life worthy of living. It is truly heart-rending to see what Christine as a stigmatized little girl had to go through in pursuit of acceptance deprived of everything most of us as a child take for granted.
This story is sure to find its way to your heart right after starting to read it. The whole account is really human and personal and I found it really easy to relate to Christine.
It also taught me an important lesson: no matter what happens to you in your childhood or in later stages of your life, finally you are always the one in charge. Even after tribulations and during hopeless situations if you keep going, you will sooner or later find your true self, true calling, the true you.
Thank you Christine for sharing and spreading this message in this book.

[Brenda · Rating 5 out of 5]

an uplifting true story about courage and lonliness, a real page turner.

[CatEscape · Rating 5 out of 5]

A twisted life..and I could feel the emotions as the years passed by and how she felt.~

[Gail murray · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great read and hard to put down

[Cateland Potts · Rating 5 out of 5]

personally i thought this book was inspiring and it was something i think i can relate to,and i recommend it to anyone it is actually in fact one of my favorite books and was quite sad when i had finished reading it because i wanted to know more about what happened afterwards in her life . i had never actually heard about the author Christine Joanna hart before till i read this book and i think she is an amazing author and i hope to read more of her books.

[Vishakha Kulkarni]

Great book!! I salute to the struggle made by the author throughout her life. this is a perfect guide for every person who is suffering from family problems in their life.Especially for girls who lack in family support.

[Pinkyjoanne · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good read. Very emotional story about girl desperate to be part of a family.

[Miyuke · Rating 5 out of 5]

The struggle for live and long for love~hard to put down.
Great novel and was inspiring.

[Suvishka · Rating 4 out of 5]

An easy read. Took 2 days to finish. It's a super sad story though. A first hand account of the horrors of adoption.

[Joyce Ellis · Rating 1 out of 5]

I have read many books of this genre, but many things about this book just didnt ring true for me. Her adoptive father worked night shift at the airport, yet the family had many holidays abroad every year (practically unheard of in the 70s) and even went to Miami for a months vacation, where she was invited to become a nun?? Her mother beat her, her father raped her every week and sold her to paedophiles to be raped by them too, but she loved and admired him? Then we got to the Ian Brady part. By this time I’d had enough, and gave up. This book left a very nasty taste in my mouth.

[Darla Ebert · Rating 2 out of 5]

The author pulled herself up out of muck and went on with her life. A sad book to read but Ms. Hart shares in such a way that a person can understand what criticism, belittlement and abuse (verbal and otherwise) can do to a child. Heinous, unthinkable and inexcuseable

[Siraat Shuja · Rating 5 out of 5]

Inspiring story, loved it! It's very rear to find nonfictional characters, living among us, who have been through so much, yet were able to achieve more than many of us

[Abigail T · Rating 1 out of 5]

If I would have bought this book at full price instead of at a charity shop I would have took it straight back and demanded a refund.

This ' story' has made me feel physically sick to be quite honest! .... first thing that springs to mind is another Myra Hindly in the making but Christine was a little too late! Her ' therapist' likes her to those poor children raped and tortured by Brady !!!! How dare he! This book should never have been published and I have since found out that this Author!!!?? Has wrote several other books coining in on her money making obsession with Brady.

What a sick human being Christine is! Sending Ian Brady modelling shots of herself!!! No matter what childhood you have had this woman's behaviour is grossly disgusting.

I am well read on the moors murders, psychology and child abuse and can quite frankly say that Christine Hart is an attention seeking narcissistic creature.

I'm sickened that she has made a living off the back of this sick attention seeking obsession .....

This book is going straight in my log burner this evening!!!!!!!!