Some autobiographies should be reference books in the study of humanity. This book, Her Troubled Life, is one such biography. This is the true story about a woman who suffered all her life because of her tormented childhood. A person childhood is fixing his or her development. In Linda's case, she kept hurting herself, not knowing how to maneuver her life. Terrible things keep happening; she reveals herself fully, as a real woman who bears the effect of what others have done to her and what she has done to herself. Rapes, attempted suicides, character assassination, infidelity, want, misery, and pain were some of her closest companions. Armed with unique philosophy of life, borne of out her experience, she hopes to confront reality and create meaning of it. Her story could be a lesson for humanity.