{"product_id":"book-k5k6","title":"Split","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow does a child survive years of unimaginable abuse?\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe splits.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd splits again. And again. And again.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAnd she does survive. But not without consequences.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs a young adult, years after her physical abuse has ended, Maggie Walters struggles with an\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eunpredictable temper and socially difficult behaviour. After several false starts she finds a therapist\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewho she trusts, just enough, to start talking about the childhood locked away behind the anger and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eisolation she has learnt to live with.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eEventually she is diagnosed with Multiple Personality Disorder, MPD (now known as Dissociative\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIdentity Disorder or DID).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGradually, she understands. It was not Maggie who survived her childhood. The instinct to survive\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecreated an alternative identity called Annie, who with a myriad of other ‘alters’, lived through the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eabuse inflicted on her.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDecades later, with a husband and three much-loved children, Maggie strives to live a normal life\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003edespite a past which has left her internal world with a hidden, dark secret. Every day, unseen by\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethose around her, trigger incidents fill her head with voices, the chaotic remnants of her other selves\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewho lived the childhood she couldn’t. This is the ‘normal’ which Maggie has learned to live with.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn SPLIT Maggie tells the story of managing this ‘normal’, of understanding and accepting her past,\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand standing strong in the life she has built from the ashes of her broken childhood.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt is a story not only of survival, but of self-acceptance, of the triumph to simply live. You will not\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eread another book like it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Author's Republic","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49478528106800,"sku":"BDk5k6","price":12.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/672178-k5k6-Square.jpg?v=1737556016","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-k5k6","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}