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

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, and this is the achingly honest story of a survivor of shocking child abuse that took place in the heart of an English suburb.

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

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, and this is the achingly honest story of a survivor of shocking child abuse that took place in the heart of an English suburb.

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

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

by Rosalinda V. Hutton
Cry and You Cry Alone: The Girl Who Vowed She'd Never Forget

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

by Rosalinda V. Hutton

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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, and this is the achingly honest story of a survivor of shocking child abuse that took place in the heart of an English suburb.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781780575285
Publisher: Mainstream Publishing Company, Limited
Publication date: 04/01/2013
Pages: 240
Product dimensions: 4.90(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Rosalinda V. Hutton works with adults with learning difficulties and mental-health problems.

Table of Contents

Preface: The Journey of a Lifetime 9

Day 1

1 The Trial Begins: A Claimant Such as You 13

2 Meet Big Lynn 17

3 Back to Dark Places 26

4 And Darker Still 31

5 The Hovel 38

6 Omni Is Winning 47

7 Going into Care 52

8 Campbell Road, Twickenham 56

9 St Anne's Convent: New Kids on the Block 64

10 I Know What You Are 74

11 Mortification of the Body Is Good for the Soul 83

12 Girls Are Not Equal 90

13 Black and White or Colour 96

14 And "Thou Shalt Not' Writ Over the Door 100

15 I Do Believe, I Do 105

16 From Tara to Don Bosco 108

17 Better the Devil You Know 116

18 Why Didn't We Tell? 125

19 The Girl I Used to Be 131

20 Lyne Place 151

21 Bramdene - Almost the End of the Road 158

Day 2

22 Psychologists' Evidence 173

23 It Couldn't Have Been All Bad 180

24 The Penguins Are Corning! 187

25 The Smoking Gun 192

26 Across the Sea to Ireland 195

27 The Sledgehammer and the Rock 212

28 My Epiphany 217

Day 3

29 The Last Day: Floodgates 227

30 The Verdict 233

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