Publisher's Synopsis
BESTSELLER DEBUT IN EUROPE A desperate mother fights for the life of her little daughter and drags her from doctor to doctor. It appears normal, but things are not always what they seem... Why can't the doctors find any physical defect? Rose's mother doesn't love her daughter, but only loves the attention she as a mother gets from medical staff. In this intense, shocking novel, without unnecessary drama, Roos Boum looks back to a childhood that has been ripped apart by a mother who perpetrated the Munchausen by proxy syndrome. Dr. Marc D. Feldman M.D. Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at the University of Alabama, author of books on this subject, about False Jasmine, A Youth Ripped Apart: "In this uncompromising account of child maltreatment and adult redemption through education, Roos Boum has presented a world most of us, happily enough, will never encounter. But this form of hidden abuse and neglect must be widely exposed if it is ever to disappear. This is the most engaging and immerse true-life novel about Munchausen by proxy that has ever been written and I applaud Roos for her triumph." Elsevier, world's leading publisher of science and health information: "Painted with cutthroat accuracy." Biblion. Dutch library organisation: "A disturbing, moving story making the reader feel desperate to intervene." Maasstad press: "A dark family secret."
