As I Lay Me Down to Sleep

As I Lay Me Down to Sleep
Authors
Munro, Eileen & McKay, Carol
Publisher
Mainstream Publishing
ISBN
9781845963446
Date
2008-08-07T00:00:00+00:00
Size
0.30 MB
Lang
en
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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.