Book description
In Once I Was a Princess, Jacqueline Pascarl related the
gripping story of her abusive childhood and her subsequent teen
marriage to a prince. What should have been a fairy tale with a happy
ending deteriorated into a nightmare of deceit and betrayal - ending
in the kidnapping of her two small children by her former husband, who
spirited them back to Malaysia.
In Since I Was a Princess, Pascarl peels back the layers of
her life after the abduction. She tells how she channelled her grief,
forging an existence as an aid worker and humanitarian ambassador in
war-torn countries and working with refugees and the dispossessed. She
describes how she persuaded some of the world's most influential
figures to support her aid work and became a human rights activist on
the international stage, championing the cause of other parents whose
children had been kidnapped and reuniting scores of families.
Pascarl also explains how she lived frenetically as she painfully
rebuilt her life and re-evaluated her relationships, grappling with
the emotional complexities of a new pregnancy and beginning a second
family. And she reveals for the first time the dramatic details of
how, at last, she was able to be reunited with her long-lost children
and make her family whole.
Candid and compelling, Since I Was a Princess is an
unforgettable ride through tragedy, loss and, finally, triumph.
After many years of working and commuting between war zones,
Jacqueline Pascarl has now settled in her home town of Melbourne,
Australia, with her husband.
