Cry and You Cry Alone: The Girl Who Vowed She’d Never Forget

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Description

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.

Additional information

Weight 0.181 kg
Dimensions 1.6 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
by

Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

240

Publisher

Year Published

2012-6-7

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

1780575289

About The Author

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.

Review Quote

This readable, honest, unvarnished account of daily cruelty in a Catholic residential home gives a powerful insight into how such regimes are sustained.