Reviewer Jessica Roberts is a book reviewer for a local newspaper and has reviewed for a national women's magazine too. She has had various articles published in magazines and has now completed her novel. Jessica currently lives in West Yorkshire and enjoys walking in the dales and woodlands as part of her hobby as well as, of course, reviewing books. To read more of Jessica's reviews CLICK HERE
Author: Angela Roegner and Anita Wooldridge
Publisher: Synergy Books
ISBN: 978-0-9840760-3-1
It a very humbling book to read and we learn what an enormous amount of courage and faith Wooldridge must have had to keep going through the eight days of torture and darkness
Author: Angela Roegner and Anita Wooldridge
Publisher: Synergy Books
ISBN: 978-0-9840760-3-1
Desiring closure to her awful ordeal led Wooldridge in collaboration with Angela Roegner, her therapist, to write this book. Most of what is mentioned inside is authentic and actually happened. There was need to elaborate some of the facts or invent some of the inner thoughts of characters in order to help with the flow of this story. Nonetheless, it is brilliantly told and should entice people to read it. I am happy to have had the pleasure.
June 25th started out like any other day for Anita Wooldridge but it did not end well. In broad daylight, she was abducted from her parent’s home by convicted rapist - Tom (Victor Thomas Steele). The days following her kidnap were horrific. Wooldridge was forced into a metal storage cabinet for long periods of time, which was always kept locked and under the watchful eye of Tom. She was also subject to rape and beatings, that left her more emotionally scared then physically.
Wooldridge insists that God was the thing which helped her through the bad times and that praying and believing in Him was her way of being able to deal with the situation. “My faith in God and constant prayer were the only things that got me through it,” recalls Wooldridge. It is a miracle she was found alive, as statistics were not looking good but due to the amazing work of local authorities and FBI agents Wooldridge has lived to recount the tale. Her story is now used today as a case study for prospective FBI agents.
It a very humbling book to read and we learn what an enormous amount of courage and faith Wooldridge must have had to keep going through the eight days of torture and darkness. Her quick thinking and intelligence may have been the key that actually saved her from death at the hands of this man, whom the authors have chosen to name as “the mole,” so as not to allow him any celebrity-type status over the crimes which he has committed.
As you read this book, you do learn that once you have come out of such an ordeal, it is not an easy thing to get over. With her own experience, Wooldridge hopes she can educate people about this type of abduction, and that just because you’ve been through something so awful, you can come out of the dark tunnel and learn to live each day again.
This is definitely a book readers of true-crime will enjoy. I’m glad to have read Wooldridge’s amazing story of courage and survival at the hands of that monster.