Book description
In 1954, in a remote mountain village in South America, a little girl was abducted. She was four years old. Marina Chapman was stolen from her housing estate and abandoned deep in the Colombian jungle. That she survived is a miracle. Two days later, half-drugged, terrified, and starving, she came…
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Marina Chapman, now a resident of Bradford (UK), claims that, as a child in 1950's Colombia, she was abandoned by her family and raised by Capuchin monkeys in the Amazon rainforest. The plot has so many similarities to those mythic tales of feral children that a lot of readers have questioned whether this supposed autobiography can really be true. Personally, I don't really care. Never let the truth stand in the way of the great story and this is a great story, from the scary but mystical epiphanies in the jungle to the even more savage experiences of sex work…
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