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'The first time my husband hit me I was nineteen years old.'For eighteen years Fran Benedetto kept her secret, hid her bruises. She stayed with Bobby because she wanted her son to have a father, and because, in spite of everything, she loved him. Then one night, when...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2011-05-10
ePub
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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,...
Editeur :
Mainstream Digital
Parution :
2011-04-07
ePub
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Drug addiction. Criminal behaviour. Murder... and all before his sixteenth birthday. From foster home to children's home to living rough on the streets, Cain never had a normal childhood. By the age of 8 he was carrying a knife. Seven years later he was serving time for...
Editeur :
Review
Parution :
2011-03-31
ePub
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'I squeezed through the narrow gap and out into the hallway and I stood for a moment, unable to decide where to go. Should I make a dash for the kitchen, where my mother would be swigging from a bottle? Or should I run upstairs and try to find somewhere to hide? It was...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2011-03-31
ePub
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In 1977 Eamonn Cooke was a household name in Ireland. He'd launched the controversial pirate radio show, Radio Dublin, from his cramped living room in Inchicore and for youngsters everywhere in Ireland he was a public hero.But there was a terrible side to this trendy...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2011-02-22
ePub
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'I heard a horrible screaming sound, like an animal being slaughtered ... then I realised it was me.'When Katie Piper was 24, her life was near perfect. Young and beautiful, she was well on her way to fulfilling her dream of becoming a model.But then she met Daniel...
Editeur :
Ebury Digital
Parution :
2011-02-17
ePub
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At just six years old Tom Wilson fell prey to a predator of the worst sort. David Murphy was supposed to be his carer, instead he lifted his victims from their beds in the dead of night, and Tom was powerless to stop it.Tom endured years of horrific abuse which led to...
Editeur :
Cornerstone Digital
Parution :
2010-12-15
ePub
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'Nobody wants you, so we have to put up with you. We'll soon knock the disobedience out of you...'Frances Reilly and her sisters were abandoned by their mother outside Nazareth House Convent - a Belfast orphanage run by nuns. Little did they know the unimaginable...
Editeur :
Seven Dials
Parution :
2010-11-25
ePub
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The deeply shocking story of a mother's neglect and a father's betrayalSally East's heartwrenching story starts when she was only three. It was then that her father first touched her inappropriately, as he started to groom her for the future. Sally's mother, a woman who...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2010-10-14
ePub
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The past they tried to hide.His mother died from cancer in 1955. His father committed suicide shortly thereafter. Paddy Doyle was sentenced in an Irish district court to be detained in an industrial school for eleven years. He was four years old...Paddy Doyle's...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2010-06-01
ePub
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A perfect family.A horrifying secret.A child's innocence destroyed.No little girl could have been safer. Emily Christie grew up surrounded by relatives whose job it was to protect her. Her father was a hard-working policeman, her grandad was a respected paramedic; they...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2010-04-29
ePub
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Gripping expose revealing one of the last secrets of the Soviet empire: its abuse of children in state institutions.'Deeply moving, frequently enraging and ultimately uplifting' DAILY MAIL'A miracle story' IRISH TIMESThis is the affecting true story of a remarkable...
Editeur :
Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Parution :
2010-02-25
ePub
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I warn society against the child who has been hurt Peter Tyrrell A tormented childhood in Letterfrack industrial school with the Christian Brothers left an enduring mark on Peter Tyrrell. Ignored by the authorities and distressed by his memories, he later burned himself...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2009-11-24
ePub
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Cynthia Owen grew up in Ireland, went to the local convent school, said her prayers and took her first communion with all the other girls in her class. But behind the façade of respectability lurked a hideous reality.Cynthia was just eight years old when she was...
Editeur :
Review
Parution :
2009-10-29
ePub
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When Leslie met her husband Conor she felt she'd found the man of her dreams. Smart, attentive and devoted to her, he was all she'd ever hoped for and it wasn't long before they were married.But worrying cracks began to appear in this seemingly perfect relationship. For...
Editeur :
Transworld Digital
Parution :
2009-10-06
ePub
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To the outside world, Lizzie McGlynn’s father was a model citizen.To little Lizzie he was a violent and depraved monster. For years, Lizzie was raped and beaten by her father, whilst her alcoholic mother stood by, helpless. She eventually found the courage to report him...
Editeur :
Review
Parution :
2009-08-06
ePub
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In 1999, at the tender age of ten, Charlene Lunnon and Lisa Hoodless were snatched as they walked to school. Over the next week, they were held captive, tortured, raped and almost killed. News of the girls' disappearance dominated the headlines, and the entire country...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2009-08-06
ePub
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When childcare worker Shane Dunphy meets Jason in 1991, he is a tiny, frightened five-year-old who has stopped speaking and terrorizes even the older children in the care home with his angry, violent behaviour. Eleven years later, Shane is shocked to find Jason's file...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2009-07-02
ePub
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What if your lover vowed to destroy you if you left him?What if he became your tormentor? Stole your freedom? Made you feel crazy? And threatened your life?This is not a story. This is Kate Brennan's life. Kate was an independent, successful single woman when she met...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2009-03-26
ePub
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On 28 August 1984, Josef Fritzl drugged his teenage daughter with ether and imprisoned her in an underground bunker behind eight locked doors. Over the following twenty-four years, he raped and abused her, never letting her or the children she bore him out of the dark,...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2008-11-06
ePub
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