Powerful, sensitive, moving, honest account of a girl's experience of sexual abuse, this book presents a forthright challenge for anyone working with young people, presenting an alarming reality that cannot be ignored. Children'swork magazine
I was hooked from page one and devoured it avidly. I was constantly awed by the restraint with which the author hinted at the depths of Rose's suffering and blindness to those who should have been protecting and encouraging her. Having been taken inside Rose's head and heart as she learns to dissociate in order to survive, I was grateful for the final chapters with their movement towards a way of living with the totally 'un-liveable-with'.This is truly an extra-ordinary book - hyphen deliberate. I shall be recommending it to colleagues and clients for many years to come. Alison Balaam, Counsellor MA (Cantab), Dip Humanistic Counselling, BACP Accredited Counsellor (2004)

This extra-ordinary book captures the deep emotions without bombarding the reader with sordid details. It has helped me to understand how children and their families can be groomed so effectively by skilled and determined paedophiles; and why and how those who have been hurt in this way can cover the events so deeply and for so long. Andrew Billington, Director of the Jack Petchey Foundation

So well written... a powerful message that I believe the Church needs to hear. People who have read Pathway through Pain know Jane's gift of describing truly and honestly how things really are. Angela Newton. Counsellor.

This book is extraordinary. Very powerfully written. No wonder it took 14 years. Alison Kidd, MA, PhD