- Hardcover: 320 pages
- Publisher: Headline Review (7 Jan 2010)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0755319044
- ISBN-13: 978-0755319046
- Product Dimensions: 21.6 x 14 x 3.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
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Cynthia Owen grew up in Ireland, went to the local convent school, said her prayers and took her first communion with all the other girls in her class. But behind the façade of respectability lurked a hideous reality.
Cynthia was just eight years old when she was sexually abused by her father amongst others. Shortly before her eleventh birthday she was made pregnant and, minutes after giving birth to the baby, Cynthia watched in horror as her own mother murdered the tiny infant, named Noleen, by repeatedly stabbing her with a knitting needle. Cynthia’s mother then wrapped the baby girl in a plastic bag, dumped her in an alleyway and made her daughter go back to school and pretend nothing had ever happened.
After enduring many more years of rape and violence, Cynthia came forward and reported her abuse and Noleen’s death.
Finally, in 2007, after a fifteen-year legal fight to have her baby girl formally identified, the jury at the ‘Dun Laoghaire Baby’ inquest declared that the baby found dead in an alleyway thirty-four years previously was Noleen Murphy, the daughter of Cynthia Owen.
Cynthia’s is a horrific story of brutality and loss, but ultimately, it is an account of love, immense bravery and her fight for justice in Noleen’s name.
About the Author
Cynthia Owen is happily married and lives in the UK. Living With Evil is her first book.
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
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I bought this book and read it over 2 days. It was an exellent account of the authors tragic life. Cynthia is born into a family who are totally dysfunctional, she is abused by her father from an early age, with her mothers approval... the mother also allows "friends" to abuse Cynthia, It is she who instigates the abuse by sending the child to her fathers bed. As well as being ignored, battered, starved, and treated as a non person in her home, the school set up is no better, the nuns taunt her about her clothes, her lice ridden hair and take every opportunity to belittle and beat the child. Then.. she finds herself preganant at 11 and is convinced that her tummy contains a "freak" by her mother, the baby is born and murdered on the same night. Truly horrific story of one woman's fight to get acknowledgment and a name for her murdered child. It also transpires that the authors younger siblings were violently sexually and physically abused from a young age, we learn what the repercussions are for them in their teenage and adult lives and how Cynthias parents deny all. A truly eyeopening, heartbreaking account of such a vile crime. Fantastically written, terribly upsetting to read in parts but inspiring when you finish the book and realise that Cynthia has risen above all of the trauma and tragedy. Excellent
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
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Living with evil,
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This review is from: Living with Evil (Hardcover)
gruesome story, was very angry at how this young girl and her siblings were treated by everyone especially her parents, couldn't put the book down until i finished reading it. well done to the author, cynthia owen, for being able to tell her story and see it through to the end.
6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
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Living With Evil,
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This review is from: Living with Evil (Hardcover)
This is an excellent book about the tragic life of a young girl in Ireland. The author, Cynthia Owen is the child the book is about and it is an account of the tragic abuse she suffered at the hands of her Mum and Dad in the 1970's onwards. It is co-written by an excellent writer Rachel Murphy which must have been hard, to hear the trauma recounted to her by Cynthia. It is hard to believe that this happened in the 1970's and people around the child chose to ignore it. Not only that, they added to her suffering by physically and mentally abusing her themselves. If I was one of them, and they know who they are, i could not live with myself. To know that they could have intervened and stopped Cynthia's suffering is tragic. It is clear that Cynthia has been scarred for life by the trauma of the events in her childhood but has been brave enough to re-count these memories to enlighten others.She has shown that she has survived and as an adult now, is finally happy, and other abused people could be too.
It is a lesson to us all to realise that if we have a 'normal' happy family, we are very fortunate, as not everyone does.And if you know or suspect a child is being abused, you should speak up and do something about it, as you could save their life. An excellent book and a 'must read' for every-one!
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