Unbeaten
Kim Woodburn
Oct 2011 · Hachette UK
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For Kim Woodburn finding fame in her 60s in the smash hit television series How Clean is Your House? with fellow dust-buster Aggie Mackenzie was like living a fairytale.
Often she simply wished that she had never been born. For Kim overcame horrific emotional and physical abuse both at the hands of her alcoholic mother and her philandering, sexually abusive father.
In her brave and revealing story Kim's memories of growing up were not of love and cuddles, but of beatings and random cruelty. Shuttled between the brutal houses of her warring parents, a succession of miserable children's homes and a grim convent - Kim's past cast a long shadow over her life. But just before her sixteenth birthday she finally made her escape. It took decades of hard work, and a wonderfully happy marriage to conquer depression but now she emerged unbowed and unbeaten as Britain's Queen of Clean, and went on to win the heart of the Nation.
A woman like no other, with a story like no other: this is a powerful testament to one woman's will to survive.
Often she simply wished that she had never been born. For Kim overcame horrific emotional and physical abuse both at the hands of her alcoholic mother and her philandering, sexually abusive father.
In her brave and revealing story Kim's memories of growing up were not of love and cuddles, but of beatings and random cruelty. Shuttled between the brutal houses of her warring parents, a succession of miserable children's homes and a grim convent - Kim's past cast a long shadow over her life. But just before her sixteenth birthday she finally made her escape. It took decades of hard work, and a wonderfully happy marriage to conquer depression but now she emerged unbowed and unbeaten as Britain's Queen of Clean, and went on to win the heart of the Nation.
A woman like no other, with a story like no other: this is a powerful testament to one woman's will to survive.
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4.6
78 reviews
bluetiger 08
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September 9, 2018
Couldn't put this book down. Such a sad, honest account of misfortune and strife. Kim was failed by so many people in her early life, but her attitude and character are a credit to her. Heart-breaking how she suffered.
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Sylvia carthy
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September 25, 2017
what a truly inspirational wonderful story from how her brutal child hood by her mother and her first husband as not been easy for her but kimono is a fighter and what goes around comes around she deserves all what she deserves that she has got and her wonderful partner loved reading her book I couldn't put it down
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marion harper
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August 31, 2019
I read this book when it first came out and it was worth reading again.. A sad sad story, what an amazing woman you are Kim and yes you deserved all the luck you finally got.
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About the author
Kim Woodburn was born in Eastney, Portsmouth. Kim worked as a beautician, a model, a social worker and a live-in housekeeper before exposing the nation's filthiest homes in the hugely popular television series How Clean is Your House? She lives in Kent with her husband Peter.
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