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The Chameleon Sings

by Ben Nuttall-Smith

334 pages; quality trade paperback (softcover); catalogue #05-1773; ISBN 1-4120-6862-2; US$24.95, C$26.95, EUR19.95, £13.95

Unearthing and examining repressed memories with a compassionate witness, the author shed childhood guilt, shame, and feelings of responsibility for the sexual abuse suffered at the hands of his uncle.

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About the Book

When I was seven and children were being evacuated from Nazi bombs, I was sent to live with an uncle in the heart of London. Night after night after night, while terror screamed down around us, my uncle raped me and made me his sex slave. I learned to keep the filthy secret, attempting to bury my guilt like soiled underwear beneath the compost heap. But that festering load kept popping up, more putrid than ever.

For most of my life, I lived obsessed with the frantic search for ever-elusive redemption and love.

Eventually, my demons surfaced to destroy my marriage and end a successful career.

Only then did I begin to face my nightmares and conquer them. I gradually healed, found forgiveness for myself and for others who had hurt me. Then, having found love at last, I moved back to Vancouver where I met the wonderful person with whom I am able to share my life, my dreams and my grandchildren.

My life has been blessed. I could have become an alcoholic, drug-addict, male prostitute, abuser, criminal. There but for fortune...

The Chameleon Sings is my journey from childhood to healing with all its pains and joys, music, poetry, miracles, humour and immeasurable good fortune.

By example, I offer help and hope to those victims who still thrash about in the dark rooms of their childhood terror.

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About the Author

Ben Nuttall-Smith taught Theatre, Music, Art, and Language from 1958 until he retired in 1991. He now lives in Vancouver, B.C., where he writes, paints, and travels with his best friend and soulmate.

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