The Girl in the Locker

The Girl in the Locker is an inspirational true story about survival. At three months old, Sonia St Claire and her twin sister Sarah were given up by their mother and sent to live in the first of five different orphanages, where they suffered unimaginable abuse for the first fourteen years of their lives. This included sexual violence, sexual slavery and physical violence, as well as such neglect and emotional abuse that the girls were left deeply wounded and traumatised well into their adult lives. Sent back to her mother from the orphanage at fourteen after she came close to death, Sonia was forced to leave school and was quickly thrown into an adult world for which she was totally unprepared. 

Confused and alone, Sonia bounced from one destructive relationship to the next as her twin sister suffered in parallel. Sonia's life was a harsh, violent and lonely existence as she struggled to forget the past and save herself from the cycle of abuse in which she was engrained. 

After reaching rock bottom, incredibly Sonia was able to take control of her life for the first time; she gradually learned to love herself and managed to create a life for herself that was free of abuse. Tragically, however, it was too late for her twin. 

Told with grace and startling honesty, The Girl in the Locker is a triumph of the human spirit.