Once I Was a Princess: A Mother's Worst Nightmare

By Jacqueline Pascarl

Book Overview

In 1980, Jacqueline Gillespie married Prince Raja Bahrin and was transported to Malaysia, where she was forced to suppress her intellect and endure physical brutality. She escaped to Australia with... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1840182776
• ISBN13: 9781840182774
• Release Date: October 1999
• Publisher: Mainstream Publishing
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.

Customer Reviews

love, strength and desolation

it is difficult to remember that this book is a true story and not only is it true but it is written by the mother involved. it must have taken great strength and resolution to write of the happenings in Jaqueline Gillespies life. It is a life story of horror, abuse and insecurity which is fought to win the happiness of self-confidence, love and happiness only to have it all taken away again by one cruel and unfeeling person. to have survived the nightmare which surely still goes on for the author is a credit to the soul that she has. the ending leaves the reader unable to sleep and praying for the safe return of two loved children to their mother. The book also relays the true story to all the people who ever doubted Jaqueline Gillespie and to all who failed her in her fight for her family. I am sure that they are still squirming in their realisation that they were weak, ignorant and corrupt - and worst of all ... that they regard money and status in higher esteem than they do the lives of innocent children ... "the future of their country".

Moving

An exceptionally moving book about a woman trying to fit into a society that does not tolerate her (she is half Chinese, half Australian). She marries a Malaysian prince and moves to Malaysia where she has two children. She leaves her husband taking her children with her back to Australia and tries to begin afresh, but her children are kidnapped and taken back to Malaysia to live as strict Muslims with their father. This true story goes on to relate how she tries to get her children back and her journey to find happiness. This book made me cry at every chapter and it put my own problems into perspective.

Excellent!

A very sad book about the life of a woman who was so desperate to feel like she belonged to something that she ended up sacrificing her happiness. When she does eventually leave, her children are taken away from her... a very sad book but once I started to read I could not stop.