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5.0


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5.0

This biography is extremely well written.   Sandra Pankhurst endured a traumatic and abusive childhood.   She had an extraordinary life, as a transgender woman who survived many dangerous and heartbreakin  situations. She treats the clients of her trauma cleaning business with empathy and compassion.

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Peter/Sandra is a terrible person who used a woman as cover, cheated on her, emotionally neglected her, manipulated her into swapping spouses (trafficking) to try to keep the marriage alive, then financial and emotionally abandoned the children.  I get it, hurt people hurt people, but that’s not an excuse.  Go to therapy and take care of your responsibilities.  When asked if there would be or ever was an attempt to find the kids the response was basically “forget that!  It would be hard and complicated and other people might have an emotion and I might have to take responsibility so no way!”

Despicable person.  I get that the job is to clean up the messes of others, and maybe in some misguided manner that is an attempt to make amends with the world, but that does nothing for the people that were injured by continued neglect.

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5.0


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3.75


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5.0

Wow! What a story! Sandra Parkhurst is honestly one incredible woman; reading Sarah’s story of her was heartbreaking and hopeful all at once and I could not stop reading. I felt as though I could only imagine the trauma and the hurt that Sandra had been through, and yet these were things you could almost forget when she was at work helping others to ‘clean up their lives’. It was fascinating getting a peek into what ‘cleaning up trauma scenes’ actually meant and how this was executed. It also really surprised me that it was hardly the police/other figures of authority that did any of that! 😳 This book doesn’t come with an ‘ending’ per se, but I felt like everything I wanted to know was addressed and that it made me feel tearful, angry and happy all at once 😂 A true rollercoaster of emotions comes into play whilst reading this book. I would highly recommend it to anyone ❤️ I might even come back to read/skim it again (and I don’t feel the need to do that with many books). Thank you!

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3.75


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3.5

what an interesting person and a well done capturing of a life. sandra is surprising and very resilient and brave but not a perfect person, and not someone who conforms to a stereotype, that would not be in her nature. it is interesting with biographies to read about a real life person because they do end up feeling a bit unreal and fictional, but it is important to remember that Sandra is a real life person. it is clear that the writer loves Sandra, and there even exists bias in that. there is a feeling of reality and imagined reality, truth and misremeberings, different perspectives and experiences, layered into Sandra's story, naturally because of her memory issues, which makes for an unstable telling of real life, but one that is still shocking, amazing, interesting and so sad. this book, and Sandra's life, has a lot of horrible traumatic moments and therefore readers should read with caution. i think that some of the present day cleaning chapters were repetitive and I found myself wanting to get back to Sandra's life narrative.

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4.0


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5.0


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