Description
Book SynopsisA raw and powerful memoir of Jaycee Lee Dugard's own story of being kidnapped as an 11-year-old and held captive for over 18 years On 10 June 1991, eleven-year-old Jaycee Dugard was
abducted from a school bus stop within sight of her home in Tahoe, California.
It was the last her family and friends saw of her for over eighteen years. On 26 August 2009, Dugard, her daughters, and Phillip Craig Garrido appeared in the office of her kidnapper's parole officer in California. Their unusual behaviour
sparked an investigation that led to the positive identification of Jaycee Lee Dugard,
living in a tent behind Garrido's home. During her time in captivity, at the age of fourteen and seventeen, she
gave birth to two daughters, both fathered by Garrido.
Dugard's memoir is
written by the 30-year-old herself and covers the period from the time of her abduction in 1991 up until
