The Girl in the Wicker Basket

Name: The Girl in the Wicker Basket
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ISBN: 9780091930127

Ann Kenny, Yvonne Kinseller

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English

Ebury Press
15 May 2009

Memoirs; Child abuse

A vividly shocking memoir about an abusive childhood in rural Ireland

When Ann Kenny was four years old her foster mother hit her across the face with a fireplace shovel. She was left lying unconscious on the cold hard floor while the family went to mass. She almost lost an eye.

This is just one of the childhood incidents Ann recalls in her vivid, shocking memoir of growing up in rural Ireland, in a house where she wasn't wanted. Her early story is Cinderella-like, but without the happy ending- she had two older sisters who were loved, but Ann was put to work on household chores and received constant neglect and physical abuse, and sexual abuse from her grandfather. On growing up Ann found it hard to escape the shadows of her past, marrying an alcoholic and effectively raised her children herself.

Ann eventually found the road to recovery and her book is a testament to the strength of a survivor. She began writing the book as she set to find out who was the tiny child she remembered left in a wicker basket - that child turned out to be herself.

By: Ann Kenny
With: Yvonne Kinseller
Imprint: Ebury Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 126mm, Spine: 16mm
Weight: 177g
ISBN: 9780091930127
ISBN 10: 009193012X
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 15 May 2009
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Ann Kenny is a 57-year-old mother of three and grandmother of one. She lives very happily with her new partner in the Home Counties.

Reviews for The Girl in the Wicker Basket

Tongue-in-cheek humor, laced with understatement and wordplay, makes for laugh-out-loud reading. . . .A true melding of words and pictures, and jolly good fun . -- School Library Journal, starred review