As I Lay Me Down to Sleep - Softcover

Munro, Eileen; McKay, Carol

 
9781845963446: As I Lay Me Down to Sleep
Softcover
ISBN 10: 184596344X ISBN 13: 9781845963446
Verlag: Transworld Publishers Ltd, 2008

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The harrowing true story of how one woman was betrayed by everyone who was supposed to care for her. When Eileen Munro's mother became pregnant at 17, 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 16, eight 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.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Eileen Munro is a trained photographer and a committed campaigner, publicist and feature writer for the UK brain injury charity Headway. She has addressed a cross-party committee of the Scottish Parliament investigating the extent of child sexual abuse in Scotland. She lives in South Lanarkshire and is currently studying creative writing through Open University. Carol McKay teaches creative writing with the Open University and her fiction has appeared in literary magazines, including Chapman and Mslexia. In 2002, she was a finalist in the prestigious Macallan/Scotland on Sunday Short Story Competition and in 2007 an extract from her work-in-progress novel was shortlisted in the Daily Telegraph Novel in a Year competition.

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Verlag
Transworld Publishers Ltd
Erscheinungsdatum
2008
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
184596344X
ISBN 13 
9781845963446
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
272
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