Publisher's Synopsis
In August 1982, 12-year-old David Bisson, dressed in an anorak and a woolly coat, was found in a public garden in Paris. Taken to a police station, he told a story that at first no one could believe. He had just spent eight years of his life imprisoned by his mother, first chained to a pipe in the bathroom, then locked for the last year in a wardrobe, fed only on scraps. His mother had subjected him to a regime of horrific punishments - he was constantly beaten or burned with cigarettes for speaking out of turn, eating too slowly, or playing quietly.;At his mother's trial David said nothing, but in this book, with the support of his counsellor, Evangeline de Schonen, he tells his story
