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Nobody Heard Me Cry: An Irish boy sold on the streets, a whole life shattered

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Nobody Heard Me Cry: An Irish boy sold on the streets, a whole life shattered - Devane, John
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John was only a baby when his father died. His mother struggled desperately to bring up five kids alone but her own despair led her to alcoholism and blind rages. John's childhood was a nightmare of neglect and beatings, but when he was nine, things became infinitely worse. Preyed on by his mother's lodgers, John was sold into prostitution on the streets around the docks in his home town of Limerick. By the time he was 16, the legacy of pain from his childhood had left him suicidally depressed but a stint in the army and a ...

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Nobody Heard Me Cry: An Irish boy sold on the streets, a whole life shattered 2009, Hodder & Stoughton Ltd, London

ISBN-13: 9780340962756

Hardcover