Sophia's story / Susan McKay.
By: McKay, Susan
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BookPublisher: Dublin : Gill & Macmillan, 2004Description: xv, 199 pages ; 20 cm.Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 0717137929 (paperback).Subject(s): McColgan, Sophia, 1970- -- Incest victims | Child abuse -- Ireland | Children -- Crimes against | Family violence -- Ireland | Child welfare -- Ireland | Incest victims -- Ireland -- BiographyDDC classification: 362.709417 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Store | 362.709417 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00079395 | |
| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 362.709417 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00079398 | |
| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 362.709417 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00079396 | |
| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Store | 362.709417 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00079025 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
In 1995, Sophia McColgan's father was sentenced to prison for the serial rape and abuse of his children over many years. He had first raped Sophia when she was only six. It had taken immense courage on the part of Sophia and her family to bring the murky, hidden world of family child abuse to the public gaze. Then, in 1998, Susan McKay published Sophia's Story, one of the most acclaimed Irish books of modern times. Now re-issued with a new introduction by Susan McKay, it records a triumph of the human spirit in the face of the most degrading and destructive betrayal of trust. Sophia McColgan, who now lives abroad, was Irish Person of the Year in 1998.
Introduction -- 'What's all the fuss about?' -- 'I felt so loved ...' -- Stolen childhood -- 'Dallas' -- 'You are all mine' -- 'I was so, so different' -- 'I was like Alice in Wonderland' -- 'Pure determined' -- 'I saw this morning Sophia smiling' -- 'A box to which I didn't know I had the key' -- 'A notorious villain altogether' -- 'Trapped in a system' -- 'How are you?'