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Biography/Memoir
True Crime
Book Details:
Price:
€11.99
Binding: pb
Pages: 192
Size: 196x130 mm
ISBN-10 0-86278-581-2
ISBN-13 978-0-86278-581-9
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Sold into Marriage
One Girl's Living Nightmare
by Sean Boyne
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In 1973 a sixteen-year-old Irish schoolgirl was sold into marriage by her father. Her groom was a farmer almost four times her age. Despite a pre-nuptial agreement guaranteeing that there would be no sex, her husband raped her repeatedly. He also beat her.
Although she made desperate pleas for help, the legal system, the police and the clergy failed to come to her aid. Sold into Marriage is the story of that girl's loveless marriage, as told to journalist Sean Boyne, her rape, subsequent pregnancy and suicide attempt and her eventual escape to London and freedom.
Praise for Sold into Marriage
'... will strke a chord with any woman who has been trapped into a bad relationship, but I guarantee you none of you will ever have equalled the likes of the horrors perpretrated on this poor girl before she finally broke out of her cage.' Modern Woman
'Nuala's tale is an emotional one that makes for compulsive reading' Cathy Kelly
'an incredible and disturbing story' Southside People
'A sad reminder of the closed society which we tolerated until very recently' Leinster Leader
'A chilling account of cruelty, abuse and domination. Nuala comes aross as an exceptional person, who despite her horrific ordeal, never lost her sense of self' Ireland on Sunday
'A disturbing and well-written account of savage cruelty' The Sunday Tribune
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