Cry and you cry alone
Subtitle: the girl who vowed she'd never forget
By: Rosalinda V. Hutton
Publisher: Mainstream
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Edinburgh
Language: eng
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9781780575285
Copyright date: 2011
Subjects: Discipline; Institutional care; Children; Adult child abuse victims; Catholic Church; Biography
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.