THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER When a fancy car pulls up outside six-year-old Marie's home in Oldham, in 1959, she is told she is going on holiday... In fact, she is taken to live in a convent, overseen by a cruel and sadistic nun. There, a horrific ritual of physical, sexual and mental abuse begins. Marie feels unable to share details of her suffering with anyone. Until years later, when a police investigation is launched, and she realises that the time has finally come to tell the truth...
ISBN: | 9781913406073 |
Publication date: | 14th May 2020 |
Author: | Marie Hargreaves |
Publisher: | Mirror Books |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 304 pages |
Genres: |
Child abuse Memoirs True stories of survival of abuse and injustice Gender studies: women and girls |