We agonize with her about who she can trust and cheer her on testifying against her father in court.Īnd we celebrate with her when she lands the job she aims for. As a reader, you experience all the raw emotions that Brooke experiences, holding your breath with her when she hears her father approaching her room. This immediately makes the reader wonders why she is there.Įxcellent writing keeps you turning the pages until the very end. We meet Brooke ready to head to the courtroom. The narrative draws the reader in right from the beginning. Nobody looking at her will ever suspect her to be from an abusive home. She is an A-grade student, works part-time at a call centre and even had the time to become a cheerleader. What I find interesting about this book is that Brooke doesn’t fit the typical abused kid profile. Thanks to the counselling she received, Brooke emerges as a survivor and starts to work as a Community Advocate for Women in Crisis. The rest of the book deals with her journey through the justice system, until the court found her father guilty and sent him to prison. Because she knows that nobody will be able to protect him once she leaves the house. With the help of his mother Gina, she started going for counselling.īrooke’s mother falls pregnant again, but it is only once Ethan is born, that she has the strength to speak up. Kindle Editionīrooke never realized that her life is not normal until the day Joseph spilled the milk during dinner with her boyfriend’s parents. My mind flashed to what happened when a glass was spilled at my house, and the daydream I had immersed myself in about Paul’s family quickly dissipated.

Joseph reached across the table to grab the Parmesan cheese and on impulse I grabbed at the glass of milk he spilled over. But in Brooke’s freshman year her mom falls pregnant and gives birth to a baby boy – which Brooke names Ethan. Her mother is mostly absent due to severe back problems and the effects of the strong painkillers she uses to deal with the pain. By allowing this she protects her siblings (Adam, Thomas, and Kat) from the same fate. Spilled Milk puts you in the world of Brooke Nolan, daughter of David and Milly Nolan.įrom an early age, her father abuses Brooke sexually. Many of us coming from happy homes, or who are in healthy relationships cannot imagine what it is like to be abused. Welcome to my adventure Spilled Milk – Summary

Spilled Milk by K.L. Randis