The baby laundry for unmarried mothers / Angela Barrett with Lynne Barrett-Lee.
By: Patrick, Angela [author]
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Contributor(s): Barrett-Lee, Lynne [author.].
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BookPublisher: London : Simon & Schuster, 2012Copyright date: ©2012Description: viii, 275 pages ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781849834902 (paperback).Subject(s): Unmarried mothers -- Great Britain | Teenage mothers -- Great Britain -- Biography | Adopted children -- Great Britain | Mothers and sonsDDC classification: 362.787432092 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 362.787432092 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 00214278 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In 1963, Angela Brown was 19, enjoying her first job working in the City of London, when her life turned upside down. A brief fling with a charismatic charmer left her pregnant, unmarried and facing a stark future. Not yet 21, she was still under the governance of her parents, strict Catholics who insisted she have the baby in secret and then put it up for adoption.
Forced to leave her job and her family, Angela was sent to a convent in Essex for her 'confinement'. Run like a Victorian workhouse, she was vilified by the nuns for her 'wickedness'. After a terrifying labour with no pain relief, Angela gave birth to a beautiful son, Paul. At eight weeks he was taken from her and forcibly put up for adoption, leaving Angela heartbroken. Not a day went by without Angela thinking about him. Then, thirty years later, a letter came. It was from Paul, and a reunion was arranged.
This vital slice of social history is a shocking reminder of how attitudes have changed around the issue of single motherhood since the early 1960s. It is also an honest, heartfelt memoir that explores the closest of human bonds.
Part one -- Chapter one -- Chapter two -- Chapter three -- Chapter four -- Chapter five -- Chapter six -- Chapter seven -- Chapter eight -- Chapter nine -- Chapter ten -- Chapter eleven -- Part two -- Chapter twelve -- Chapter thirteen -- Chapter fourteen -- Chapter fifteen -- Chapter sixteen -- Chapter seventeen -- Part three -- Chapter eighteen -- Chapter nineteen -- Chapter twenty -- Chapter twenty-one -- Chapter twenty-two -- Epilogue -- To my son.