検索キーワード： "自己啓発" 冒険家・探検家・サバイバル

Closed for Business is not another pretty memoir. It is a woman’s unmasked truth… the truth most families would rather keep buried. In this book, I unpack the emotional and psychological abuse that shaped me, the mental warfare from my own mother, the physical beatings, self harm, suicidal thoughts, and betrayal that cut deeper because it came from people who shared my blood.

“Does Max Nilsson live here?” These words from a woman I had never seen before changed my family’s lives entirely. This is a true story about a man who lived a double life: “A new day, a new life” was his motto. The man I fell in love with and who became my fiancé was a fraud. Being found out by chance brought out his madness. He started a campaign of persistent harassment, and I couldn’t get him out of my life. The more I delved into his life, the more appalling things I discovered. He screamed at me, telling me I could have anything I wanted if I stopped.

Thrust into state care at six months of age because of an alcoholic father and mentally ill mother, Teresa Cooper spent an unsettled childhood in a variety of children's homes. At age 13, she was sent to Kendall House in Gravesend, Kent, a home which soon became her prison and worst nightmare. Teresa found herself a victim of a terrible regime: she was injected with dangerously high doses of drugs and sexually abused.