When Eileen Munro's mother became pregnant at 16, she was told to give her baby away to a 'good family', but the couple who paid the fee at the Salvation Army mother-and-baby home in Glasgow in 1963 turned out to be alcoholics who neglected and physically abused Eileen. Then, when their marriage broke down, they failed to protect her from sexual abuse at the hands of a family friend.
After watching her adoptive mother drown on inhaled vomit, Eileen and her younger sister were taken into care, but her nightmare was to continue as she was subjected to further physical, sexual and emotional abuse.
At the age of only seventeen, seven months into a secret pregnancy, she decided that the only way out was through a bottle of painkillers; when she survived and gave birth to a beautiful baby boy, he became her lifeline.
By:
Carol McKay, Eileen Munro Imprint: Mainstream Publishing Country of Publication: United Kingdom Dimensions:
Height: 177mm,
Width: 111mm,
Spine: 18mm
Weight: 140g ISBN:9781845963842 ISBN 10: 1845963849 Pages: 272 Publication Date:01 September 2008 Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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General/trade
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Undergraduate
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Primary
Format:Paperback Publisher's Status: Active
