Author: KELLY, JUDITH
Title: Rock Me Gently: A Memoir Of A Convent Childhood
Description: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, UK. First Edition, Softcover. Very Good Condition. 9780747587149 288 pages. Available Now. Book Description: In the 1950s, shortly after her father's death, Judith Kelly was left in the care of nuns at a Catholic orphanage while her mother searched for a place for them to live. She was eight years old. Far from being cared for, Judith found herself in a savage and terrifying institution where physical, emotional and sexual abuse was the daily norm and the children's lives were reduced to stark survival. As the months became years and no word came from her mother, she sought comfort instead from the girls around her, and especially the bright, angel-voiced Frances, who seemed miraculously untouched by the nuns' persecution and the abject misery surrounding her. When a tragic accident robbed Judith of her dearest friend, the traumatic memories of the event were to trouble her deeply, long into her adult life. Years later, at a kibbutz in Israel, Judith met and befriended an elderly Holocaust survivor. It was a friendship that began with an instinctive recognition of the fear and suffering each had experienced, and one that would begin an emotional journey culminating in Judith's return to the Nazareth House orphanage to confront her memories and to achieve some measure of peace. Rock Me Gently is an astonishing, moving and deeply shocking memoir, and a story that resonates in the mind long after the final page. : Review: ‘A searing account of the emotional and physical cruelty meted out at the orphanage' -- Sunday Telegraph: ‘Simple yet shocking … Sad and disturbing, it's unexpectedly uplifting too' -- Elle: ‘Superbly told, and will stick with the reader long after the last page has been turned' -- Sunday Business Post : From the Publisher: Updated and revised by the author to confront her critics : For fans of Dave Peltzer's The Lost Boy, Andrea Ashworth's Once in a House on Fire and Kevin Lewis's The Kid Size: 1.9 x 12.7 x 19 cm. 288 pages. Quantity Available: 1. Category: Biography & Autobiography; Paperback; ISBN: 0747587140. ISBN/EAN: 9780747587149. Inventory No: F246-1196.

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