January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her

· Tantor Media Inc · Narrated by Patrick Lawlor
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A brilliant and harrowingly honest memoir, January First is the extraordinary story of a father's fight to save his child from an extremely severe case of mental illness in the face of overwhelming adversity.
A brilliant and harrowingly honest memoir, January First is the extraordinary story of a father's fight to save his child from an extremely severe case of mental illness in the face of overwhelming adversity.

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Like lightning she strikes
July 15, 2022
The history behind this family is incredibly distressing. look up Munchausen by Proxy. CPS took the kids away after they were being overmedicated. Neither of them had serious mental illnesses. it was a fabrication for money and media attention.
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Michael Schofield is the author of January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her and the cofounder, with his wife, Susan, of the Jani Foundation.

Patrick Lawlor has recorded over three hundred audiobooks in just about every genre. He has been an Audie Award finalist multiple times and has garnered several AudioFile Earphones Awards, a Publishers Weekly Listen-Up Award, and many Library Journal and Kirkus starred audio reviews.

Michael Schofield is the author of January First: A Child's Descent into Madness and Her Father's Struggle to Save Her and the cofounder, with his wife, Susan, of the Jani Foundation. Patrick Lawlor has recorded over three hundred audiobooks in just about every genre. He has been an Audie Award f...

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