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Amandas Voice is a journey of trauma, tragedy and forgiveness. It is the story of a massacre of an entire family--with the exception of one sibling, teenager Amanda Bennett. In this book, her grandmother, Eileen Bennett, a retired newspaperMoreAmandas Voice is a journey of trauma, tragedy and forgiveness. It is the story of a massacre of an entire family--with the exception of one sibling, teenager Amanda Bennett. In this book, her grandmother, Eileen Bennett, a retired newspaper reporter, relates the story of the murders in chilling detail: the May 2006 night that Amanda lost her mother Wendy, 35- brother Scotty, 12- and sister Melanie, 6. Their husband and father, Scott, Sr., 40, had shot them as they slept before turning the gun on himself. It is through Amanda, who lives her life with the strength, dignity and forgiveness rarely seen in one so young, that the rest of the family finds hope and forgiveness. For Eileen and her husband Chick, a retired police officer, it is a journey that leads them to the New Jersey Statehouse in 2007, where they joined other victims families, me and other anti-death penalty advocates in the successful move to abolish the dealth penalty in New Jersey. What could have been a story of revenge and bitterness instead tells the tale of the power of forgiveness in the human spirit.--Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking, which was nominated for a 1993 Pulitzer Prize and was on the New York Times bestseller list for 31 weeks. The book was the basis for the Oscar-winning film of the same name.ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Eileen Bennett is an award-winning newspaper reporter and editor based in the southern New JerseyPhiladelphia area. She has nearly 30 years of news experience. She retired in 2003 from The Press of Atlantic City. Eileen published her first book, the fictional Incidental Tears, in 2005. Amandas Voice by Eileen Bennett
