02614cam a2200481 i 4500 342423750 TxAuBib 20180321120000.0 170922s2017||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780316466622 031646662X (OCoLC)1013189364 TxAuBib rda eng fre Julien, Maude, 1957- The Only Girl in the World : A Memoir / Maude Julien with Ursula Gauthier ; translated by Adriana Hunter. 1st North American ed. New York, NY : Little, Brown and Company, 2017. 273 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "First published in France by Éditions Stock as Derrière la grille, 2014."--Title page verso. Bklst 11/15/2017. LJ 07/01/2017. PW 10/09/2017. Kirkus 09/15/2017. NYT Bk 12/31/2017. The Only Girl in the World describes the author's harrowing upbringing by fanatic parents, who raised her in isolation through traumatic disciplinary exercises designed to "eliminate weakness" and recounts how she eventually escaped with the help of an outsider. Maude learned to hold an electric fence for minutes without flinching, and to sit perfectly still in a rat-infested cellar all night long (her mother sewed bells onto her clothes that would give her away if she moved). She endured a life without heat, hot water, adequate food, friendship, or any kind of affectionate treatment. But Maude's parents could not rule her inner life. Befriending the animals on her parents' lonely estate as well as the characters in the novels she read in secret, young Maude nurtured in herself the compassion and love that her parents forbade as weak. And when, after more than a decade, an outsider managed to penetrate her family's paranoid world, Maude seized her opportunity to break free. 20180321. Maude Julien 1957- Abused children France Biography. Psychologically Abused Children France Biography. Psychological Torture. Women Biography. Personality disorders. Post-traumatic stress disorder. Biography. Adult Child Abuse Victims' Writings. Gauthier, Ursula, author. Hunter, Adriana, translator. TXDRI