Cry and You Cry Alone: The Girl Who Vowed She'd Never Forget
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Cry and You Cry Alone: The Girl Who Vowed She'd Never Forget
By (Author) Rosalinda V. Hutton
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Mainstream Publishing
15th June 2012
United Kingdom
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
Memoirs
True stories of heroism, endurance and survival
Child abuse
362.76092
Physical Properties
Paperback
240
Width 129mm, Height 198mm, Spine 16mm
181g
Description
A moving memoir about the horror and trauma of abuse at a Catholic children's home in 1960s England After an idyllic early childhood in Surrey, Linda's life descended into poverty and chaos when her parents' marriage crumbled and her unstable mother's sanity declined. She experienced a brief period of comfort in a caring foster home before being plunged into the dark, terrifying world of a 1960s institution. St Anne's Convent, Orpington, was a Catholic children's home run by the infamous Sisters of Mercy and a former monk who inflicted bizarre and barbaric beliefs and practices on the children in his care. Cry and You Cry Alone is the achingly honest story of a survivor of shocking child abuse that took place in the heart of an English suburb.
Reviews
This readable, honest, unvarnished account of daily cruelty in a Catholic residential home gives a powerful insight into how such regimes are sustained.
* British Church Newspaper *Author Bio
Rosalinda V. Hutton has worked as a legal secretary and as an English lecturer. She has an honours degree in humanities and currently works with adults with learning difficulties and mental-health problems.
